Word: tripodic
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...family to include groups of objects as well as people. Once one has been through the show, the props of his still lifes, which were also the normal appurtenances of his home life, become like familiar faces: the patriarchal mass of his copper water urn, perched on its squat tripod; the white teapot with its rakish finial; the painted china that signaled his growing prosperity, and so on down to the last stoneware daubière, all signifying a world in which the eye could work without alienation or even strain...
...Germany's Friedrich von Martens and his Panorama-Kamera took a 150°-angle photo of Paris on a curved daguerreotype plate. After the invention of flexible film, other cameras were designed to sweep the horizons. Dantzic's choice, the 50-lb.. Cirkut sits on a tripod and is rotated on a vertical axis by a clockwork mechanism, while its film is moved at the same speed past its aperture...
...snowmobiles. They block construction machinery with pickup trucks and boulders. They shove welding rods into the radiators of the power companies' tractors, sprinkle sand and gravel into gas tanks. Four masked men on horseback menaced one work crew; up to 100 chanting protestors have played "ring-around-the-tripod" to heckle surveyors. Math Woida, a Sauk Centre farmer, became a local hero by picking a particularly windy day to spread manure: the stuff was blown all over a survey crew and its truck. Unamused, the power companies have filed an excessive $500,000 suit for real and punitive damages...
...Storey, particularly The Changing Room, will feel immediately at home with Fellow Briton Trevor Griffiths' characters. Six Man chester men with paltry jobs aspire to be entertainers in workingmen's clubs, with a possible whack at the London big time. Each act is one leg of a tripod - final warmup, audition, postmortem...
...machine-gun crew in a hot firefight near the home of Samir Tabet, provost of the American University of Beirut, selected the roof of Tabet's car as a new gun position. Before opening fire, however, they carefully spread newspapers on the roof so the tripod would not scratch the paint...