Word: grid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bounding about in a blur of flailing shields and spears; a wedding-party dance had a suggestion of Spain in the gentle sway of hip and shoulder. In one of the evening's high points the company performed a traditional pole dance, stepping with unhurried grace through a grid of clashing poles clapped together in an accelerating syncopated rhythm. The dancers-many of them in their teens-showed a simple, unsophisticated enthusiasm that kindled a sense of joy in the audience. At a party after the opening night performance they decided to express their gratitude to Impresario Sol Hurok...
...Crimson football team has been picked for third place in the Ivy League next year, it was revealed yesterday. An "anonymous winter book" compiling the different strengths of the teams gave this prediction at a Monday meeting of the league's grid coaches in Boston...
...Venice Junior High School, a $548,213 building for 450 pupils, an uncompromisingly modular steel, concrete and glass campus plan that Architects John Crowell of Sarasota, 43, and Mark Hampton of Tampa, 35, thought would best adjust to the changing demands of function. Colored panels and waffle-grid roof lighten the heavy industrial look...
Later, while teaching at Walter Gropius' Bauhaus in Germany, another childhood influence returned to shape the major part of Feininger's art: it was his passion for American precision, as expressed in Manhattan's illimitable grid of straight streets, its now-vanished els, old New York Central trains with diamond-shaped smokestack and steam domes of polished brass, and Hudson River sidewheelers and yachts, of which he used to build faithful models. There, working side by side with fellow fantasists, topped by Paul Klee. and fellow precisionists, notably Josef Albers. Feininger evolved the weird, airy, many-faceted...
...Sofa. The Simmons Co., biggest U.S. mattress maker, will bring out a line of upholstered furniture (sofas, love seats, lounge chairs) with a new device to guard against sag. Instead of woven jute-webbing supports for the furniture's coil springs, Simmons' pieces will have a steel-grid support suspended by rubber torsion springs. This will not only make furniture more comfortable but prevent sagging after long use, says Simmons. Sofa price range...