Word: rectangularity
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...South Carolina Legislature will soon pass a compromise bill that will remove the Confederate flag from the top of the statehouse, (a point where it is visible throughout almost the entire capital). But don't start cheering yet. A slightly altered confederate flag (square instead of rectangular, with a white border) will fly in a prominent spot on the state house grounds next to a memorial for the Confederate dead. In the inevitable relief following this victory, we must remember not to sing our praises too loudly...
Between breakfast and lunch, the landscape turned swampy. I was fascinated by the strange rectangular pools bordered by skinny strips of land. They were catfish ponds. They soon gave way to fields of bright green grass alternating with patches of cotton stubble. Nearing Yazoo City, Miss.--our second stop after Memphis, with six more to go--we watched folks hanging out on their stoops, kids playing, pickup trucks winding along two-lane country roads. To this untutored Yankee, it was a first glimpse of what I had known only from fiction and song, from Flannery O'Connor to Hank Williams...
Once crisscrossed with paths like in Harvard Yard, the quad was converted to a genuine grass-covered field in the 1970s and what has resulted--a simple rectangular "courtyard"--is one of Harvard's greatest successes, according to many Cabot residents...
...architecture of the house plays on an opposition between its industrial-looking rectangular envelope and the lush curvature inside, with velvet or silk curtains, rounded and polished composite surfaces and translucent glass. The services and circulation of the house are contained in an undulating sandwich wall that also helps define the living spaces. The wall expands and folds back on itself, enclosing spaces for privacy and opening to allow rooms to flow continuously into one another. It provides a subconscious for the house, adjusting to the specific desires of the users. Sliding partitions and curtains can also create room separations...
...sculpting process begins with a rectangular block of solid ice. The carvers sketch a rough outline onto the block with a black marker, and use a chainsaw to make a rough carving of the design. For details, they use finer hand-held chisels...