Word: rectangularity
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...Made Environment bristles with challenge. Many of its pages are lightweight cardboard punch-outs, which can be folded to make beams, roofs, and whole buildings. One of the first lessons asks students to punch out six geometric shapes and arrange them in a pleasing design within a rectangular frame. When the students turn over the shapes, they find that the pieces represent armchairs, a table, a TV set. The next step is to rearrange the shapes within a room, which entails thinking about how people best communicate...
...thermocouple that generates 200 milliwatts of electricity. This powers a tiny generator that sends an impulse to the heart through internally implanted wires. Both of the complex pacemakers are small. The French device is cylindrical and about the size of a 35-mm. film cassette; the American is rectangular, half the size of a cigarette pack. The half life of Pu-238 (the time in which it loses half of its radioactivity) is almost 90 years. But for safety's sake the surgeons expect to replace the plutonium power source after about ten years...
...years ago, many Americans felt that the system was being abandoned as technically unfeasible. The Pentagon maintains, however, that the Soviets have developed an improved version. In addition, the Russians have embarked on the nationwide installation of their Hen House radar stations (so called because they look like large rectangular cages), designed to track incoming missiles for the Soviet ABM system. The Pentagon cites the Soviet developments as a reason for pressing ahead with the next phase of the U.S.'s Safeguard program. Should one side develop an effective ABM system first, it would upset the balance of nuclear...
...frame. The constant purifying of the medium leads to the dilemma of what can come next. Frank Stella, a particularly inventive artist, has opened painting in a new direction by changing the traditional shape of the canvas. In the process of experiment, his paintings have led him beyond the rectangular frame to shapes of triangle, rectangle, and circle...
...earliest shaped-canvases in this exhibition reveal that Stella first cut out rectangular pieces from the edges of the painting. Rows of white pinstripes repeat the pattern of the sides. He coats the picture with a uniform quiet color-maroon, grey, or often black. And by evenly covering the whole surface, the thin stripes emphasize the outer shape. One of these canvases runs its zigzag olive green surface 23 feet along the wall. Here Stella plays with shadowed color that makes the stripes seem to move in three dimensional space as well as on the flat surface...