Word: grid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fairmount Park's old bridges, the city's best ice cream stand (Bassett's in Reading Terminal Market), and even a giant automobile crusher on Penrose Avenue. To make sense of the city streets, the book traces Philadelphia's growth from the neat rectangular grid of streets studded with parks laid out by Penn himself in 1622, through later annexations of communities like Germantown, to the present sprawling conurbation. It diagrams the changing patterns of ethnic distribution. The old Irish, Russian and German neighborhoods have largely dispersed; only the Italians in south Philadelphia and the blacks...
Last Saturday this same unsuccessful team, frustrated on the same unsuccessful team, frustrated on the grid, the b-ball court and the diamond by the some pitiable score, and hardened by a year of the fickle cruskies which plague the world's most powerful University, decided not to show. The reason: A mild drizzle, brought on by Hurricane Anne, had dampened the sod of Soldiers Field...
Concerned that the remaining staff was too small to provide the University with all the news, Decherd returned to the Stadium, and began an elaborate ritual, beseeching his teammates to forgive and forget. "Deacon," he yelied across the grid through a makeshift bullhorn rolled out of Saturday's issue. "How are we going to fill the sports page...
...region will be divided into 2 1/2-acre grids for research purposes. The team members will then collect a diversity of information about the soil, wildlife, current land use and exact location of each grid and feed it into a computer. After the designers have planned changes in the region, the computer will simulate the effects of these alterations allowing the team to see regional patterns...
...denies the classification: "People are always trying to tell me I'm a color painter. In fact my work is just about painting." Nevertheless, color is the overriding content and subject of Zakanych's work. He manipulates it with stunning precision, by dividing the canvas with a grid of close rectangular intervals and then producing tiny, almost imperceptible grades of hue and intensity from one block to the next. The result is "a constant movement across the painting, and up and down. There isn't one color that remains stable; I don't want viewers...