Word: mosaicism
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...absent-mindedness-a potpourri of unrelated products from bread-bagging machines to rocket launchers, all stuffed improbably under the wing of one of the nation's most anonymous corporate giants. But FMC Corp. of San Jose, Calif., is no happenstance hodgepodge. It is a carefully laid industrial mosaic that since 1950 has run up an enviable record of twelve consecutive yearly increases in both sales and profits. Last year sales of FMC's 14 divisions soared to $415 million; in the first half of this year they climbed another 32%. The investor who owned FMC stock worth...
Charging into the cavernous lobby of New England's biggest movie theater, the man with the big cigar gestured expansively at an abstract mosaic in ceramic tile. "Looka that, friend," he roared. "Know what it cost? Twelve big ones [i.e., $12,000]." Newly refurbished and reopened as the Music Hall, Boston's old, 4,250-seat Metropolitan Theater was undeniably cinemajestic. So, in his own way, is its boss-hefty (6 ft., 240 lbs.) Ben Sack...
...mosaic, a piece of sculpture, a tapestry or a painting is apt to be expensive, and it is certainly not functional. Thus when it comes to public projects or low-cost housing, watchdogs of the public purse tend to consider such fine arts frivolous and hard to justify to the taxpayers. A good many enlightened people deplore this view, but cannot make themselves felt. But a few years ago, an enlightened Philadelphia lawyer named Michael von Moschzisker found himself in a position to do something about it. He was then chairman of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, which was charged with...
...task of "reading it" that the editors of The Achievement of Wallace Stevens have collected 19 critical essays written over the four decades of Stevens' life as a poet. As a primer of Stevens, as it is also supposed to be, the collection provides only a finicky mosaic, and most of the essays concern Harmonium, a collection of Stevens' work only...
...cathedral's chapels have specific roles in both design and function. The Chapel of Unity, across the nave from the baptistry window, has a floor of intricately designed marble mosaic by Sweden's Einar Forseth and a ceiling arched to the shape of a Crusader's tent. To Spence, it is the heart of the cathedral's theme of unity. In another corner, the Chapel of Christ the Servant looks out through plain windows on the reality of grimy Coventry below, attempting to project the cathedral into Coventry's workaday world. Near by, the Chapel...