Word: rectangularity
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...from the wall or screen, the larger the picture will appear. We were able to get a picture roughly equivalent to that of a 65-in. big-screen TV, and didn't have to adjust much for "keystoning" (the tapering that occurs when you point the movie's rectangular picture up at an angle). Once we turned out the lights, and played with contrast and brightness settings, the wall itself sufficed for our triple-feature ("Big Lebowski", "Fellowship of the Rings," and "The Empire Strikes Back...
While Threshie limited the paper's disdain for excessive government interference to the editorial page, Editor Anderson cleaned up the paper's format by reducing the cluttered eight-column pages to six and laying out stories in easy-to-read rectangular units instead of the traditional vertical strips. Anderson also ran much more news about Orange County, an 800-sq.-mi. sprawl of 26 municipalities and scores of towns, with a population of more than 2 million...
...parkway. Nightfall approaches, and in the chill air Babcock slowly begins to pack his tools. "I must have given a hundred talks," he remarks. "Each time I say the same thing: save the barns! People listen, but they don't act." On the Baker place, the sheep barn's rectangular skeleton now glows softly, a spare Doric temple in the twilight. Babcock touches the smoothly hewn frame with a hammer-size hand. "Look how carefully they worked. They thought they were building for the future." He brightens into a smile. "And today, we saved one. Gramps would be pleased...
...toward the viewer. Her hourglass figure—white with a shimmering black dress on a black background—drips with sensuality reality can never deliver. Next page: she is wrapped in only a sheet, he’s naked and wiping the booze off his chin. The rectangular text blocks say everything we all dream: “I’m staring at a goddess. She’s telling me she wants me. She sounds like she means it.” Two pages later the woman is dead and dirty cops are charging...
...works resemble paintings, but instead of canvases, Shapero has painted what appears to be window-screening; applying the paint in different thicknesses allows her to let more or less of the screen’s texture come through. The screens are marked by bright colors and rectangular designs, but an all-over marble pattern prevents them from being overly geometric. The exhibit runs through March...