Word: verticale
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Figures carrying each other appear repeatedly. A large drawing entitled simply "Climbing Figures" shows one man hauling another up a vertical ladder. The bottom figure is bent nearly double. The top one, heavier, also leans forward, bracing his arms on the other's shoulders. The steepness of the ladder intensifies...
The few visible changes in the company's "bread and butter" models aim for a sleeker appearance and simpler ornamentation. Fins on the Chrysler's rear fenders give the car a longer, more sculptured silhouette. Chrysler stylists eliminated the huge and unsightly vertical parking lights of the 1963...
- REZONING-which is often the same as ungerrymandering. In San Francisco, mostly white Grant School lies near mostly Negro Emerson School in a rectangular area cut by a horizontal attendance line; made vertical, the line would integrate both schools. New York City's school zoning boss, Assistant Superintendent Francis...
Under Ted Baker, its penurious founder, National Airlines shielded the windows of its Miami headquarters from the sun with brown wrapping paper. When Lewis Maytag Jr., heir to a washing machine fortune, bought Baker out 15 months ago, the first thing he did was to invest in vertical blinds.
But according to testimony released last week by a Senate investigating committee, Anderson did not learn his lesson. This time he was criticizing the civilian Pentagon's award of an $18 million contract to Bell Aerosystems Co. to build a plane (the X-22) that can take off and...