Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took Literature and Arts B-33: "Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Architecture" last semester, we studied the United Nations headquarters in New York City as an example of the architect Le Corbusier's work. Driving past the U.N. this summer, I noted the characteristic window-walls and boxy shape. I was proud to have learned something useful in a Core class; I now had an erudite factoid for future cocktail-party...
...long ago there was a flurry of excitement in the FBI task force when someone spotted a shape on top of the bench during the period when the bomb is thought to have been planted. The video was sent, along with other promising graphic finds, to a state-of-the-art National Aeronautics and Space Administration imagery facility, where it was digitally enhanced. But the video did not give up its secrets. "It's a black blob," says Kennedy. "You can't tell if it's a person. You can't tell if the backpack is there or under...
...building stands apart from the rest of the city. Using some local construction techniques combined with sophisticated three-dimensional computer modeling, the two architects maintained consistency with the surrounding buildings but added Gehry's signature whimsy. Ginger isn't twirling like that just for fun, though--her kinked shape means the view of the Prague castle from a neighboring apartment house is minimally obscured. This, clearly, is the new Prague, just as the Charles Bridge is the old. Like Fred, it has some stunning moves; like Ginger...
...Every division one team gets a couple days off for Christmas and that's something you know when you come in to play." Black said. "...If you were to go home and just sit around for a week and come back--not only would you be out of shape but you're level of play would be way off its mark, I believe...
Righteous people making miserable the lives they would save--that should be fun. But tyro auteur Alexander Payne cannot shape or propel his own good material. He lets things dawdle when briskness would be a boon, and defeats the gung-ho efforts of Dern and other worthy actors. Citizen Ruth means to evoke such '40s comedies as The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, but it is less Preston Sturges than depressed and turgid...