Word: slenderness
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...Philharmonic Hall, Lippold chose as his material highly polished copper alloy because it complemented the travertine used in the interior. After experimenting with a model in his studio, he ordered 190 slender metal planks of different sizes, to be hung from the ceiling by steel wires of extra strength. He had no final image in mind as he worked, but in the end he produced two giant floating sculptures that suggested "two friendly gods." He named his work Orpheus and Apollo...
...level and from every angle the sculptures are successful, as esthetically true as a bunch of grapes. From the lobby, they cut the room's vast elongation without removing an inch of space. From the first balcony, they explode like flowers suddenly bursting into bloom. Higher up, the slender wires attract attention: hundreds of cats' cradles that seem to have the delicacy of spiders' webs. The sculptures weigh a total of five tons, but they seem to keep afloat through some inner power of their...
When Morocco's beloved King Mohammed V died last year, no one Seemed less likely to hold the nation together than his eldest son, slender, dark-eyed King Hassan II. Hassan knew his way around the royal court, but his interest in the serious business of government seemed equally matched with a taste for racing sports cars, riding horses, and romping with starlets. The political pundits figured Hassan might last six months...
...Bath. On-the-spot direction of the Minuteman sites is in the hands of a slender World War II pilot, Colonel Burton C. Andrus Jr., 45, commander of the 341st. He normally patrols his area in a blue station wagon, with one of three radio-telephones in hand. He can never be more than six rings from any phone, often scrambles out of a bath to hear a voice say: "Very good, Colonel, you made it in 27 seconds...
...focus them so that they interact with waves gathered by another antenna running at right angles to the first. In Australia, and at Cambridge University. England, such intricate apparatus record information on punched tape and feed it into electronic computers for analysis. They have an effective beam so slender that it can distinguish objects many billion light-years distant in space. The most complex setups of all use two dishes scores of miles apart, feeding their information by microwave beams to a common center...