Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slowest to change; for once clients are used to a particular look, a standard method of construction and a conventional system of status-conferring clues, it is hard to wean any but the most adventurous away from them. Architecture is also the most visible of all arts. Buildings shape the environment; painting and sculpture only adorn it. All this has meant that though architecture changes more slowly than painting, its fluctuations mean more. When they occur, clearly something is up. What happened to architecture in the 1970s may turn out to be the largest revision of opinion about buildings-what...
Carried further, mannerism turns into jokes. One exponent of the building as sight gag is Chicago Architect Stanley Tigerman. His best-known visual joke is the Daisy House in Porter Beach, Ind. The house is in the shape of a phallus; a flight of white concrete steps, cascading down to the lake shore, represents the semen. Tigerman can also be serious, as in his award-winning Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped at the University of Illinois' Chicago Circle campus. Since most blind people are at least partly sighted, and can register color, the library is candied with bright...
Kleinfelder said that despite defensive lapses, the team is improving. "If we win our next few games, we'll be in really good shape for the Ivy championships," she said, referring to the February 9-11 tournament at Yale...
...President Bok announces the dismissals of football coach Joe Restic and chief labor negotiator Edward W. Powers, and their replacement by former Ohio State coach Wayne Woodrow "Woody the Knife" Hayes, "We firmly believe that Coach Hayes has all the qualities needed to shape up our two problem areas, which for years have been football and labor relations," Bok says. "And he's got a great right hook," the pugilistically-minded prexie adds...
...butterfly duel with East German double winner Andrea Pollack (who had meet records in both fly events), coming on the heels of the grueling 400 I.M., revealed just what kind of shape she was in. "I knew that both of the Germans always go out fast and then burn out," she said afterwards, "so I just took it slow for the first 100. I wasn't even tired at that point, but I just made my move too late...