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...early '50s, some of his paintings were moving away from the strict line-and-rectangle grid. Black-White Duet with Red, 1953 (see cut), loosens the bond. Instead of Mondrian's delicately balanced, off-center compositions, a kind of symmetry prevails: the skewed, hefty profiles of black and white fit together like a Yin-Yang symbol as revised by a locksmith. "I liked what Mondrian had discovered - the interchangeability of form and space," Smith recalls. "But I wanted to apply that to free form...
Vince Lombardi would have loved the football class of '74. The college players concluding their undergraduate grid careers this winter are an uncommonly rugged group. TIME'S annual poll of professional scouts to determine the athletes who will be most sought after in the N.F.L. draft has turned up an abundance of intimidating talent. The way the pros saw the season, the best players were linemen and linebackers-big rough performers schooled in the grunt-and-groan tradition that Lombardi refined to savage perfection at Green...
...development of "input-output" analysis. Leontiefs big contribution was devising the formulas through which economists can determine with great precision how changes in one sector of the economy (inputs) will affect the performance of other sectors (outputs). Building on his pioneering work, Government economists now compile a huge statistical grid showing how much each economic sector buys and sells from every other major sector. Using the chart, they can, for example, calculate how much a decision to slow the building of barracks will reduce the sales not only of the paint industry but also of the chemical firms from which...
...sports fan will be interested to know that the above-mentioned schools provide some of the most exciting football in the city. An exciting grid schedule is climaxed by the traditional Turkey day tiffs, featuring rivalries as old and exciting as Harvard-Yale. A few games, and you'll want to stay in Boston over the Thanksgiving recess just to witness these sports spectacles, filled with the school spirit of days gone...
...armor of medieval soldiers. Even the terrible knocking at the gate is not the usual pounding on wood but instead a clanking on metal. This is a cool, gray world. The huge portraits of Duncan and later of Macbeth and his wife, which are dropped down from the grid, are not colored oils; they are stark black-and-white photographs. Touches of color in this production are rare, and thus all the more striking...