Word: gridded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...real world," if not as the nursery of captains of industry and political masterminds? But the truth is that I never joined the Student Productions Association, never met the undergrads who wear power ties to lunch in the Union. I never tapped into the great politico-economic power grid they call "the old school tie." I may be an ass, but I have my pride...
...make it look not like an afterthought. We add the human scale and the life in many cases." His practical ideas are deeply elegant: outdoor maps for the retail center of a Marin County town will be three dimensional, cast in bronze and overlaid with a directional grid. For his latest commission, the grandest yet, he will help oversee the renovation of Bay Meadows, a Thoroughbred racetrack built in the 1930s...
...audience lay on the floor and the performance took place above them on the lighting grid...
...where Moses and his family kept their goats at night was covered with a grid of heavy wire. When a visitor wondered about it, Moses explained, "Leopard comes at night to take the goat." Around every Masai enk'ang is built a sturdy fence of thorn and cedar to keep the lions out. One day, walking in the forest, Moses shouldered an enormous slab of cedar to add to his boma. "The lion makes me do a lot of work," he remarked. Sometimes the barricades do not hold, and the Masai wake to the bawl and crashing of cattle...
Honoring performance on the architectural drawing boards rather than the grid iron, the National Park Service recently nominated the Harvard Stadium as a National Historic Landmark...