Word: portal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Medievalist Stephen K. Scher. The most distinctive characteristic of Romanesque and Gothic sculpture, he points out, derives from the fact that it was designed to be incorporated into a church. "Whether it be the pyramid of a capital," says Scher, "or the perpendicular wall planes of the portal, the sculpture is forced to obey the laws of the structural mass. The resulting compression and restraint resemble a collected horse in dressage; the energy returns upon itself and becomes totally contained within the basic form...
...museum has gone to great lengths to install the sculpture in settings that suggest the churches from which it came. The main entrance to the exhibition is a massive 12th century limestone portal from western France. Grotesque demons, beady-eyed saints, capitals, reliefs and niche ornaments are ranged on piers within a series of specially constructed pseudo-Romanesque arcades...
...mayor last week, he may well have noticed a symbol of change in Daley's plush office on the fifth floor of city hall. The swinging door that was once supposed to indicate Daley's accessibility to the people has been replaced by a thick hardwood portal that slides on steel tracks and can only be opened by a security guard or Daley's private secretary...
Bypassed Duct. After the incisions were made, the real technical difficulties began. Moore and his chief assistant, Dr. Alan Birtch, clamped off the portal vein, which delivers blood to the liver for chemical processing, and the inferior vena cava. The hepatic artery, which delivers blood for the liver's own oxygen needs, was so damaged by pressure from the cancer as to be useless. Moore and Birtch decided to use in its place the right kidney artery. That meant removing the right kidney, but a single healthy kidney is all the body needs...
...places for those readers who relish those forms of mental exercise, and there is enough sexual activity to maintain interest through the long, cold tussles with radical existential philosophy. Once again onanism is used to reflect the spiritual isolation of the age, and sodomy is seen as an important portal to self-awareness...