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...beleaguered skyline, overbuilt with middling boxes. Major additions are now promised or under way from a long list of architects of Foster's caliber, including Frank Gehry, Fumihiko Maki, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers.) What Foster has created is a 46-story notched glass tower covered with a webwork of triangles, called a diagrid, in off-white stainless steel. That serpentine frame is both structural--it supports most of the building's weight--and delightful. It makes of the whole exterior a cage where sunlight plays all day. In the morning the light slaloms up and down the bright diagonals...
Schama's subtle history is a webwork of characters: early American abolitionists like Washington's aide-de-camp John Laurens, determined slaves like the self-named "British Freedom" and scoundrels too numerous to mention. His heroes include antislavery pamphleteer Granville Sharp, who subsidized a pivotal English court case on behalf of an American slave who escaped from his master while visiting England...
Last week in Houston, John Glenn, the 77-year-old senior Senator from Ohio, was learning his way around another potentially lethal flying machine. Clad in a blue full-body garment shot through with a webwork of cooling tubes, he stepped into a NASA training room at the Johnson Space Center and glanced at a space-shuttle simulator standing in front of him. A technician then helped him struggle into a heavy orange flight suit. Stuffed into the backpack of the 90-lb. pressure garment was a huge load of survival equipment: a life preserver, an emergency food and water...
...thin panel causes the figures to stand stiffly as though in fright. Equally, his work was influenced by Matisse, whose daring, expressive color and use of black translate, in Beckmann, into a stylistic effect similar to stained glass, with burning patches of green or flesh color emphasized by a webwork of heavy black outlines...
After a balky start, the Magellan probe is mapping the cloud-shrouded planet by radar. Found so far: giant craters, major lava flows and a webwork of faults...