Word: dyad
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Gradually, differences arise between the once inseparable Julia and Valentina. In the land of perfect oneness, asymmetries are afoot. Valentina wants to go out into the world and be a fashion designer. She feels trapped and smothered by their twinnish dyad. Julia wants to keep things as they are and feels betrayed by Valentina's growing independence. The distracting presences of Elspeth (whom only Valentina can see) and two attractive male neighbors push the girls further off balance. They can't stay together, and they can't separate. Something will have to give...
...miracle they didn't then kill each other. But The Beatles isn't all dirt. Spitz brings readers inside the studio, where the Beatles, none of whom could read music, generated a staggering catalog of innovations, including the first use of feedback. He also pries open the songwriting dyad of McCartney and Lennon, who couldn't seem to stop writing perfect pop songs even when they couldn't stand each other. Anything was raw material: a cornflakes jingle (Good Morning, Good Morning), a snippet of Shakespeare on the radio (I Am the Walrus), the stoned ramblings of Peter Fonda...
...Murray experiment, a three-year personality experiment in which he was a paid subject. After writing extensive autobiographies and voluminous ruminations on many topics, subjects in their third year were interrogated, their ideas and beliefs challenged in (by most accounts) combative and hostile sessions called “dyad sessions.” Subjects then watched footage of their responses under pressure, and were asked to comment upon themselves watching themselves be interrogated. Dr. [Henry A.] Murray had worked for the OSS [Office of Strategic Services], and some believed he was developing interrogation techniques for the CIA. Others say this...
...beautifully rich minimalism is found in Maria Lewis's "The Dyad," 1990-92, a golden diptych. Within each square canvas a burnished circle gives a sense of geometric completion to the doubling. Though the two materials Lewis uses are of a nearly identical color, the dryly stippled acrylic of the painted whole and shiny strip of the inset circles have entirely different, and revelatory, qualities...