Word: seam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lifes that are flecked with fragments of earthy humor and yet are generally bathed in sadness. A Brook painting does not scream for attention: the colors are usually subdued and subtly graded, the mood is muted, and the technique is so sure as to be unseen, like an invisible seam...
...there for a reason. Nothing is extraneous. Everything works. Without the figure-eight pattern of its hand stitching, a baseball would be just another sphere. But the pattern is not for decoration, nor is it merely to hold the horsehide sections together-that could be accomplished by a seam around the middle. The curvilinear design provides a grip for the pitcher, and when the ball is released with a spinning action, the seam gives the sort of resistance in flight that makes a controlled curve possible. It is a perfect example of the law that in sport, as in architecture...
...election fueled by emotion and fought to singsong calypsos, the newborn West Indies Federation last week came apart at its most important seam. Given their first chance to vote on the question of federation, 251,935 Jamaicans voted no, 216,400 said yes. The decision was a bitter surprise both for Britain, which saw federation as the best way to cut its colonies loose, and for the political leaders of the islands,* who had spent years negotiating a delicate balance of power between populous (1,700,000) Jamaica and its small, faraway neighbors...
Ladies' undergarments, like the Marshall Plan, are designed to lend support to needy areas. The help, however, is meant to be unobtrusive, and should not -via bulge, seam, ridge or twanging wire -make itself conspicuous. The U.S. foundation industry has looked for years for a brassiere that will support and uphold the female figure (and its component parts) without betraying its truss...
Last week Peter Pan Foundations, Inc. was proudly claiming to have achieved a breakthrough-a bra without any seams at all. The secret is in a new drip-dry Chemstrand nylon fiber, which, once molded, holds its shape forever. To make the bra, the lace cloth is laid over a metal replica of a well-shaped bosom. Another form, hollowed out like an Iron Maiden, clamps down and presses the cloth against the model bosom. (Most bras are cut to size 34B, the great average U.S. measurement.) When the process is complete, the curve is permanently molded into the material...