Word: rectangularity
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...notes the appearance, the hard and rectangular hair and clothing styles, the "bluff, hearty, and sarcastic conversational style" of suburban house-wives and suggests that, cheated of a career by the male-dominated standards around them, these women express their "masculinity" (society's primary calling-card to success and self-fulfillment) in the only form left to them...
...same time that commercial architecture began to acquire its new shape-solid and rectangular- those who profited from it began to feel a little debt to society. They contributed part of their fortunes to the new "public" buildings. The Metropolitan Museum itself is an example. By the time the Met was built, the City's sky and air had ceased to be public property, and were in fact the property of whoever built its buildings. Individual enclaves- museums and churches- were carved out and set aside to the public domain...
Many Westerners consider it unlikely that the Soviets really intend to invite Israeli attacks by moving so close to the canal. Normally, the SA-3s and their systems are housed in two low, rectangular, 40-ft.-long buildings that hold missiles, computers, radar and other electronic controls. One radar system, which requires a 65-ft. tower, is code-named "Squat Eye" by NATO; another is called "Low Blow." Both are fully visible from the air, and also are detectable by electronic reconnaissance. Yet neither Israeli recon flights nor U.S. electronic snooping devices have so far uncovered evidence of missile sites...
...building was spacious, rectangular, concrete, and dark. I hope darkness is good for the fish and solaces them with its successful simulation of the blackness of the deeps, for at times, especially when looking into the central pool (populated with rudimentary goldfish and long-shouted fellows who may have been Marlowe's "vile torpedo"), it seemed that the fish were a little too considerately shrouded in nostalgic midnight. The denizens were separated in numerous small tanks, in dramatic contrast to the Florida occanariums I had visited in which large and small, carnivorous and vegetarian, hostile and affable fish were promiscuously...
...four days. Indianapolis is really two races; qualifications, where the thirty-three fastest cars are selected from the seventy-five or eighty that are entered, and then the 500 mile race itself. For qualifications, the cars are set up to run around a two-and-a-half mile rectangular track as fast as they possibly can. Chassis are set up for optimum handling with a small fuel load and no regard for tire wear. Oxygen-bearing nitromethane is added in large quantities to the alcohol fuel, producing increased power and decreased engine life. No car could hope to finish...