Word: rigidness
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Miller's presentation is meant to destroy myths about the College and to allay fears of rigid formulas and Staggering odds...
...best-known master was, of course, Antonio Gaudi (1852-1926). A descendant of Catalan metalsmiths, Gaudi introduced a wholly new idea of built space: an organic kind of space, not bounded by rigid lines, that undulates, flares, inflates, twists and contains stunning metaphors and moments of theater. The basement of the palace he built off the Ramblas for his main patron, Eusebi Guell, could serve as a set for The Ring -- not surprisingly, since Catalans in the 1880s were crazy for Wagner, the newest of new composers. Gaudi's Casa Mila, on Passeig de Gracia, known to Barcelonans...
...equally well be Egyptian, North African or Iranian, though the Pisans themselves (who installed it on the facade of their cathedral) believed it was war booty from their conquest of Majorca, once an Arab fiefdom. Severely holed by bullets in the 19th century, it remains an overwhelmingly authoritative image -- rigid, swollen, and yet almost liquid in its linear rhythms, as in the rhyme between the profile curve of its breast and the serpentine edges of its wings: a guardian figure left stranded when the culture around it drained away and was lost...
...woman who is outside conventional female roles, "respectable" class roles, and England itself. Liberation seems to lie in rejecting conventional categories of thought and learning to be true to one's self. Relationships will always be false so long as thought and conversation are used to maintain rigid power structures instead of provoking honest action...
...design and produce a new car (six years) than the U.S. did to fight and win World War II. But he could never make the company move -- a bad augury for a presidential hopeful who would have to deal with a federal bureaucracy that is even bigger, more rigid and more expert at sidetracking would-be reformers...