Word: voiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...temple was a magnified house, a house could look like a temple. No solution could have been more pleasing to Palladio's Italian clients, who enjoyed their pomp; none could have responded better to Palladio's formal bent. The network of ratios between height and width, void and solid, expressed in the façades of Villa Cornaro and Villa Malcontenta, subtly prepares the visitor for the less consciously felt proportions of the rooms within. For there was nothing improvised in Palladio. His plans-always axial, with lesser rooms grouped symmetrically around a high hall-obey stringent rules...
...selectwoman of her town. Before Ken's return, she worried that she would be reluctant to give up the responsibilities she had taken on in his absence. Instead she finds she has "this tremendous sense of relief. There's no longer a void to fill...
...handful of students taking up so silly and risky a fad? Some undergraduates suggest jokingly that the quality of food served in university dining halls might explain the hunger for bulbs. Even Epps admits: "It's clear that something is missing from their diet." Or is the void somewhere else...
...this point in the time-space continuum, we found it necessary to re-enter the intergalactic void for our millennial tune-up. As for your query: Is there intelligent life on RTH? Having peered at length at the little windows, our answer must be negative. How about a visit to Jupiter? The only SPOTZ there are the ones caused by meteors...
...chair back and table legs and vase glows with preternatural intensity. Color for Matisse was not a property of objects. It was the stuff of which they were made. And space itself was less a describable structure-which it was for Picasso or Braque-than a color-filled void in which the eye immersed itself. Years later, Matisse summed up the difference in one mild and cryptic phrase...