Word: rectangularity
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...walls of the Political Science Facultad at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. It is mostly ugly, and come to think of it, the walls themselves, in addition to most structural features located therein, are pretty ugly.My classes began at 6:30 p.m., so I would typically approach its hulking, rectangular silhouette in the nighttime. Perhaps I’d slip into the cafeteria first. On my left would be a poster of a young man name Carlos, admonishing its readers to “Continue the Fight.” The poster presumably depicts Carlos Javier Palomino, a young anti...
Most of us take for granted that those rectangular green slips of paper we keep in our wallets are inviolable: the physical embodiment of value. But alternative forms of money have a long history and appear to be growing in popularity. It's not merely barter or primitive means of exchange like seashells or beads. Beneath the financial radar, in hip U.S. towns or South African townships, in shops, markets and even banks, people throughout the world are exchanging goods and services via thousands of currency types that look nothing like official tender...
...Theodore Roosevelt built a rectangular room on the ground floor of the new West Wing, replacing offices on the second floor of the White House. William Howard Taft made it into an oval in honor of a symbolic feature of George Washington's Philadelphia residence: a room with a bowed end where the first President would stand surrounded by a circle of guests, allowing him to democratically greet each visitor from the same distance. The office was moved to its current location in the southeast corner of the White House...
...Surrounded by a floor full of large weight lifters and girls addicted to exercise bikes is a long rectangular room steeped in history. Black and white pictures of fencers hang below crimson-colored flags. Alongside them are old helmets and rusting swords in a scene straight out of Camelot, crossed in artistic display...
...materials are dismantled and recycled. During an intermission in the afternoon’s events, Christo and Jeanne-Claude stepped out onto a balcony by the ICA’s theater. In the warmth of the afternoon sun, Jeanne-Claude tipped the ash of her cigarette into a rectangular metal box that she pulled from her bag. She seemed slightly annoyed by questions: “The answer to that is on our website.” Christo was more forthcoming.“There is this unstoppable urge to do a work of art. There is no justification required...