Word: rectangularity
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...surfaces in need of care before they are carried off to line walls or hang from rack after rack in a storage room with only inches to spare between them. But a woman restoring a Bouchet portrait of a court lady instead remarks: "These pieces were added to the rectangular original to turn it into an oval...rather lovely...
...that there is all that much staff work to be done. At 9:30 a.m. every morning, the chiefs gather around a large rectangular table where they discuss union matters until noon. After lunch, they join the leisure class for the rest of the day. The daytime pleasures include golf, deep-sea fishing, the thoroughbreds at nearby Gulfstream Park and gin rummy beside the pool. By night, the union moguls could be found at restaurants like the Americana's Gaucho Room-known in AFL-CIO circles as the "Gotcha Room," in honor of its $70 steak dinner...
...when it is on the verge of unveiling a new product, Kodak is supersecretive about its cameras. The company's 1975 annual report has two photos of playing children taken by the new process, but the pictures are half-hidden and show only good color reproduction and a rectangular shape (Polaroid's SX-70 system produces square images...
That is what one remembers: a rectangular patch of green engulfed by a sea of confusion and anticipation...
...mammal department itself is a rectangular oasis of light and better air at the rump of the museum, which you only come upon after a confused trip through the intestinal corridors that wrap themselves around the gray floor-to-ceiling cases and racks. The mammal room is also the only place on the fifth floor that you'll find living mammals. Edie Rutzmoser works there, and in the corner there's Charles P. Lyman, curator of Mammalogy, who is talking on the phone and asking someone where he can acquire a pair of canvas duckback hunting trousers. The walls...