Word: rectilinear
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WHETHER they know it or not, the architect, the layout artist, the sign painter, and even the counter girl who wraps a candy box asymmetrically with a gay ribbon all owe a debt to a lone Dutchman named Piet Mondrian. Cubist Mondrian's crisp, rectilinear paintings, once scoffed at as being mere linoleum patterns, have been one of the most pervasive influences in 20th century design. With their novelty absorbed, his paintings are now being viewed in their own right, establishing Mondrian as one of art's great space organizers...
Burma's stately, rectilinear capital, the visitor may still come by night upon lanterns or candles at dangerous street intersections; they are placed there by superstitious Burmese to attract by night the spirits of those killed in street accidents...
Last week Boston honored Gropius with a big retrospective show of his architecture. Included were models of his glass-walled Bauhaus (done in 1926) and Harvard's new graduate center (designed by Gropius and several collaborators). The crisp, cold, unornamental lines of his buildings, their rectilinear counterpointing of wide-eyed windows and bare, blind walls, shocked nobody. Gropius has disseminated his philosophy of design so well that now it is almost taken for granted...
Died. Piet Mondrian (Pieter Cornells Mondriaan), 71, Holland-born dean of rectilinear abstract painters; in Manhattan. The gentle, jazz-and-orange-loving hermit, heavily influenced by Pablo Picasso, always said that regular curves made him nervous; deplored the necessary circularity of records and oranges...
...readers of Wheel of Fortune might find it hard to imagine how such a strictly non-political novel could be considered out of line, even in such a rectilinear country as Duceland. But, though the book was not suppressed, the Italian press gave it not a single mention. Reason: The ruler of Rome's hive does not approve of such Roman drones as Moravia writes about, prefers to ignore their existence...