Word: rectangularity
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...crime is stealing a 4 by 6 inch rectangular sheet of white metal marked "U.S. Mail Schedule." His punishment for "tampering with the mails" can be a $1,000 fine or three years in prison. His last theft--the thinrd in as many weeks--provoked Tutor Cheever to post a terse warning of "a severe punishment' for the offender...
...Chromatron" color tube invented by Nobel Prizewinner Ernest O. Lawrence and developed by Paramount Pictures Corp.'s TV labs. Crosley said it already has a pilot line turning out the new tube on a limited scale, and promised a wide range of advantages for its new product: large, rectangular pictures, excellent color definition and easy mass production...
...Manhattan, a midtown gallery was showing stained glass by 18 living Americans, many of them well-known painters. Among the standouts was a rectangular abstraction by I. (for Irene) Rice Pereira, done in two layers of glass whose straight lines seemed to shift their positions whenever the viewer shifted his. Equally original, but with more feeling, was Peter Ostuni's abstract evocation of three shadowy figures, composed mainly of cracked plaques and crushed chunks of colored glass melted directly onto a white pane...
...masonry-like slabs of paint troweled on to canvas. His biggest picture weighs 250 lbs. unframed, and his smallest, something more than a gym-class dumbbell. Each colored slab fits its neighbors as snugly as a stone in a wall. A mound of squarish slabs represents a bouquet; rectangular slabs in horizontal layers stand for a seacoast. De Staël's colors are sumptuous, often set off by solid chunks of coal black which supercharge the canvas in much the same way as Rouault's heavy black outlines...
Creative Abdication. The "we" are 4,500,000 tribesmen who speak such languages as Dagomba, Akan, Ewe and Ga and are scattered across a rectangular patch of jungle, swamp and bushland that juts into the westward bulge of Africa, north of the coast that was once called the "White Man's Grave." Seven out of ten are illiterate, more than half believe in witchcraft, yet the happy-go-lucky Gold Coasters have been chosen by Imperial Britain to pioneer its boldest experiment in African home rule. In 1951 the British gave the Gold Coast its first democratic constitution; last...