Word: rectangularity
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Empty Nutshell. Inside the hotel, seated at a rectangular table covered with green baize, Stoph spoke first. In a one-hour speech, he demanded immediate West German recognition of the Communist German Democratic Republic as a separate and sovereign nation. That was not new, but he also added an old demand that West Germany thought had been abandoned: $27.3 billion in reparations for the 2,600,000 East Germans who fled to the West between 1949 and 1961, when the erection of the Berlin Wall cut escape routes...
...visitor ascends the rectangular ramps along the aquarium's walls, he passes the abodes of other amusing creatures: penguins. One species on display in the mock Antarctic environment is the so-called jackass penguin (named for its harsh bray). Proceeding upward, the visitor brushes past a large and almost frightening mural covered with life-size silhouettes of sharks. He joins the youngsters at the children's tidal pool -where they are encouraged to reach in and touch starfish, tiny crabs and harmless sea urchins. Finally, as he approaches the highest level, he walks under an awesome 35-foot...
...through the glass walls as he walks down the curving ramps that surround it. The layout is so unorthodox that it seems more like an undersea version of Frank Lloyd Wright's spiral-shaped Guggenheim Museum in New York than the traditional aquarium of low-slung rectangular tanks...
...envisioned that the courtroom would be something like Boston Music Hall, allowing for many spectators. In fact, it was a scant thirty by forty feet, with stylish wood paneling and an attractive skylight overhead. Two long rectangular tables, to be used by the prosecuting and defense attorneys, sat at right angles to the judge's desk, filling the center of the room. The jurors' plush swivel chairs lined the left wall. The seats against the right wall were for the press. In the back of the room, four rows of pew-like benches were reserved for spectators...
...Rules is designed visually to prevent our making sense of any setting. Christine's husband appears in the hall in mid-shot: the space is deep and rectangular, we ought to be able to tell where he is going. But as he walks into it the camera tracks wildly across his back, completely changing the dynamics of the space. On the left the room seems to extend quite far, but as he walks we find that a mirror has created an illusory depth, that the space is ordered quite differently than we thought...