Word: fragmentism
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...blocks. While none of Krier's IBA architecture is great, all of it is good. His best is the main building (of nine) of a rather formal housing estate near the Tiergarten, West Berlin's big central park. The main facade, an outthrust white shield, could be the refurbished fragment of an ancient Roman circus. But in pure postmodern fashion, the metaphors are freely mixed: facing the long central lawn on the interior is a handsome pair of neo-medieval towers in red brick, and windows copied, it seems, from a 19th century factory...
...orderly and the wild, at once restrained and mannerist. A wine label for Sonoma County's small Hanna Winery, for example, is no neat, well-behaved rectangle but an asymmetrical ziggurat with type stacked in surprising ways. For a poster meant to express the idea of summer, a fragment of architectural statuary is enclosed within a flaming triangle, bracketed by scratched asymmetrical bars top and bottom, placed over a regular field of tiny squares and beneath an action-painting slew of paint drips. Instead of hokey chaos, it is jam-packed, allusive, improbably coherent...
...Whoa. This is a hominid," crowed Anthropologist Tim White when he spotted the first bone fragment, a portion of an elbow, lying on a layer of sand. Looking down, Expedition Leader Donald Johanson shouted, "There's part of a humerus right next to it!" That July 1986 find in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge marked the beginning of a startling discovery that was formally unveiled last week by White and Johanson. The team of ten U.S. and Tanzanian scientists unearthed 302 fossil bones and teeth that have yielded a more complete picture of modern humans' earliest direct ancestor, Homo habilis...
...Congress may prove difficult to control -- especially by a President who has been reluctant to use executive power. Moreover, the President's slate included an ideologically diverse assortment of candidates unified by little more than her endorsement, and that diversity leads many observers to expect the group to fragment once Congress meets. The lack of a politically coherent majority and the absence of an institutionalized parliamentary opposition could pose threats to long-term stability...
...task of fighting the Resistance and getting rid of the Jews. The young, dedicated Nazi excelled at his job. He is accused of having executed 4,000 people and deported 7,500 Jews. His career grew so bloodstained that he was dubbed the "Butcher of Lyons." Yet only a fragment of that past will be weighed in the deliberations: the accusation is primarily concerned with the 44 Jewish children who, along with their guardians, were arrested on his orders in the village of Izieu and then sent to the gas chambers of Auschwitz...