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...years has provided the backdrop for illuminated displays of reindeer, angels and the magi, has gone completely abstract. The stores along the street, which pay for the display according to their store frontage, this year hit upon a giant jeweled necklace consisting of eleven sections made up of 33 hexagonal frames wrapped in gilt tinsel. In the center of each hexagon is a three-foot star, and at the bottom of each dangles yet another star embedded with silver reflectors. Explains one of the designers: "Father Christmas is losing his charm. Even cribs are less popular. People want something different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: The Great Festival | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

Happily, the prestidigitator who presides over all this is Iris Murdoch, a literary magician who can transform a traditional romantic triangle into at least a hexagon at the split of an infinitive. As it turns out, every soul for miles around is both loved and in love-in every combination of age and sex known. But the often unseemly relationships never seem seamy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soap Opera & Sensibility | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

Taking the theme of Mt. Sinai, where God gave Moses the two stone tables containing the Ten Commandments. Wright projected a huge (175 ft. wide by 100 ft. tall) pyramidal structure in the form of a distorted hexagon. The main auditorium will seat 1,200. Dominating the interior will be a 40-ft. high ark of the covenant, faced with colored glass to symbolize the burning bush that was not consumed. The pulpit will be in the center, a return to the custom of ancient times, which emphasized what Rabbi Cohen calls "the democratic relationship between the religious leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Promised Hosanna | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

...removed from the main part of the building. To get the shape of the classrooms, Perkins and Will experimented with full-scale diagrams on a gym floor. The circle and square, they decided, were too imprisoning; the pentagon was drab, the octagon confusing. The architects' final decision: the hexagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oceans of Piffle | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...plot is very flimsy, substituting the eternal hexagon for the eternal triangle. Although acquitted by a hung jury, the hero, Richard Todd, is still suspected of murdering his evil, beautiful wife. Since Todd gives such an insipid performance, it is difficult to believe that the could murder anything. A New Yorker, played with incredible shallowness by Ruth Roman, decides to prove this after their very first encounter. Their personalities undergo a radical change every ten minutes, and every change is more trite than the one before. The result is no personality...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/8/1951 | See Source »

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