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...nominating the Old Yard to the National Park Service in May 1972, the MHC described the site as "a large three-shaded, roughly rectangular open space and smaller peripheral spaces to the west and south...
...game itself is deceptively simple. Each player arranges 15 checker-like counters on four of the 24 triangular "points" that line two opposite edges of the rectangular board. The players take turns moving their counters from point to point according to the throw of dice-white going one way, black the other. When a player has collected all of his counters on his "home" points, he can begin to "bear off" (remove his pieces); the first to remove all his pieces wins. He is awarded a single game, a double game ("gammon") or a triple game ("backgammon"), depending upon...
...weary of naked women. Let's have some nude men, s'il vous plait." Among those outraged by the spectacle was Henri Larivière, a professional poster plasterer. In a rearguard action, as it were, he partially covered some of the posters with white rectangular patches that the French television network uses as a warning against material that is "not for minors...
Indeed, some of her best pieces hardly become "art" at all. Hangup, 1965-66, is a rectangular frame, "tied up," as Hesse put it, "like a hospital bandage." A long loop of metal emerges from one corner, traces a wambling arc in the air, flops on the floor and creeps back into the opposite corner. It is articulately made but looks stumbling and impoverished, like a Beckett tramp. It still seems daring, but was vastly more so six years ago, when Minimalism still imposed its demands of geometry, scalelessness and high industrial polish on most new American sculpture...
...Breuer made the houses grow so naturally out of the sod, how he cantilevered staircases and, above all, how he met the needs of occupants. In some H-shaped houses, he separated the daytime areas-kitchen, dining and living rooms-from bedrooms by a central hall. In his rectangular "long" houses, a central kitchen and bathrooms divide living from sleeping quarters. Hardly a small modern house now exists in the U.S. that does not owe some debt to Breuer's sensitivity to human habit...