Word: formalities
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...horizontal space was receding into memory by 1920. In its place grew a new myth that supplied one of the core images of American art deco: the conquest of the air, by buildings and machines -- the taming of vertical space. The aircraft, with its fairings and streamlines, became the formal metaphor for a host of products from milkshake machines to staplers. Fantasy piled on fantasy: Bel Geddes, one of the master industrial designers of the period, looked at airfoils and fish and came up with the finned, monocoque body of his Motor Car Number 9, 1933, which was never built...
...wrong. On Jan. 7, 1986, shortly after McFarlane left the Government, Reagan convened another NSC meeting. According to Shultz, nothing was put to a vote and no formal decision was announced. But, says the Secretary, he could sense that the trend of the discussion was going in favor of additional arms sales. Still opposed, Shultz made little effort after that to find out what was happening; he told the Foreign Affairs Committee, "I . . . kick myself" for not being more aggressive...
Gooden, his attorney and several witnesses have charged that police used excessive force in arresting Gooden and four of his friends, though no formal complaint has been filed...
Students, alumni and labor activists blockade Memorial Hall and prevent a formal dinner honoring Harvard's 350th anniversary from ever taking place. Rather than arrest the protesters, University officials cancel the dinner leaving 500 of some of Harvard's most prominent alumni hungry...
...classicism and romanticism. So Orsay's program must begin after the peak of the romantic movement. Cachin, Laclotte and the new museum's staff wanted to start in 1863 -- the emblematic year that saw the first Salon des Refuses, Manet's epochal Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe and the formal rupture of the avant-garde from the academy. Giscard demurred. He wanted Orsay to begin in 1830, with Delacroix's Liberty Guiding the People -- which the Louvre flatly refused to release. Back to the drawing board. But then, in 1981 a new Socialist government headed by Francois Mitterrand came...