Word: hexagon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stage is a hexagon, not much larger than a cockfighting pit. Four playgoers apiece are seated in wire-meshed chicken-coop enclosures. Visually, the audience becomes ghostly to itself, a spectral collection of selves in limbo, seemingly bodiless...
...court's bench. When Burger suggested redesigning it so that the Justices could see and hear one another better, he originally considered a V shape with himself at the apex. Other Justices resisted. The bench was ultimately bent in two places so that it now resembles a half hexagon...
When the court reconvenes on Feb. 22, the sawed-up bench will be reassembled in the form of a half-hexagon. The purpose: to enable the venerable Justices to see and hear each other more clearly. No longer, in theory, will cases be delayed by two Justices asking questions simultaneously, or by the familiar request from opposite ends of the bench: "Would you state that again, please...