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...taken, yet it is a perfect picture. The mother, child and doll are incongruous in size, expression, and surface texture. They are also rather desperately poor. Another photograph of these subjects could have been chaotic or shocking or both; Shahn's is tied together formally by intricate series of triangular rhythms and rescued from pathos by the contentment of the child and the alert concern of its mother...
...recognized each other as Greek or Spanish-speaking and who want to exchange news before they rejoin the crowd, which, it seems to me, is mostly English-speaking. I'm startled by the number of old people. At the intersection of River St. and Massachusetts Ave. there is a triangular island with a row of benches along its base; old men sit there in the evening with their hands clasped between their knees. Once, a benchsitter said hello to me and I didn't bother to answer. Now I figure that I should have. After all, he didn't mumble...
...have to turn to face the breeze; its symmetrical shape offers the same surface to winds from any direction. Cribbing from jet aircraft, Polytechnic Institute of New York engineers are experimenting with a delta-shaped airfoil used in conjunction with standard windmill rotors. Pointing into the wind, the triangular whig amplifies the wind's power at least fivefold; the wind is focused into whirling streams that strike the rotors. Other teams at General Electric and at Connecticut's Kaman Corp., a helicopter manufacturer, are considering blades up to 100 ft. long. If these behemoths can be made strong...
...other American sculptors, like Richard Serra: neither earthwork nor freestanding construction, but midway between the two-steel plates embedded into planes and strips of earth. The first of these immense environmental pieces was her 280-ft. Land Canal and Hillside built in Dallas in 1971: a string of triangular steel forms down the dividing strip of a highway, rising and falling and tilting, meant to be seen as a changing sculpture from the windows of swiftly passing cars. The largest-not yet built-is a 1½ acre project for Bedminster, N.J.: a low, subtly broken plane cutting across...
...ribbed and sharply folding tentlike shapes of orange steel, is arguably one of the most successful pieces of monumental sculpture produced by an American in the past decade. No photograph can convey the peculiar intricacy of space that it develops from what seems a simple formula of two skewed triangular prisms, one inside the other...