Word: geometricized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nader stoutly defends the project, on which he has spent $200,000 and employed 1,000 paid writers and volunteers. His hope is that the effort will spur Congress to hold a special session next year specifically devoted to its own reform. Congress, he says accurately enough, has abdicated its...
To the Navajo, a blanket was a second skin. He wore it, slept under it and hung it across the door of his hogan, both as a defense against wind and rain and as an object of delight. Its geometric patterns, rarely repeated, expressed the individuality of the creator and...
It is one of life's great unexplained chemical quirks: the 20 amino acids found in all living things almost always have the same geometric configuration. The structure can best be demonstrated by crystallizing the amino acids and passing polarized light through them; the light waves are always rotated...
Service. Elstein was born in 1948 -the year that Harry Truman, amid predictions of Democratic ruin, defeated Thomas E. Dewey. He hopes there will be parallels this year. The son of a retired high school history and economics teacher, Ken grew up politically aware, listening to dinner-table conversation in...
Humor. In Hockney's most recent painting, even the elaborate ambiguities have dropped away, leaving an exhibition of (almost) normal genre painting and landscape. Some of the humor remains. One painting looks like an orthodox New York abstraction, with a plane of blue punctuated by a red geometric circle...