Word: latticework
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...told us all they knew . . . we'd be unbeatable." A small-town barber, who is planning to meet THEM by building a giant Jacob's ladder to heaven, raves on like a real estate developer. "Four soaring arches spanning the state," he proposes, "topped by a golden latticework of jointed metal. Build it up in easy stages. Hydraulic elevators. Restaurants and resthouses at every five-hundredth level...
...surgeon, there remains a major repair job. For structural support and to diminish the size of the opening, he builds a latticework of sutures across the win dow, covering them with strong connective tissue (fascia) from an ox. After much meticulous suturing, the wound has a taut look before the skin is closed...
...horizontal latticework of pipes is constructed about ten feet above the ground to be excavated. Hanging plumb lines from this metal checkerboard, the archaeologist marks the ground off into orderly squares, two meters on a side. As objects are uncovered, he records their position relative to this grid system...
...architecture above the level of pastiche." Yet, with "fashionable change slowly getting the better of invention, a kind of bargain Taj Mahal is already infiltrating contemporary architecture as portents of failure." Chief practitioner of this kind of architecture, says Rudofsky, is Edward D. Stone, famed for the neo-Moorish latticework walls he wraps around his buildings: "He throws in a veil of mechanical ornament, a smokescreen of stone, so that you can't see the structure behind...
...history. In the Williams era, there have been generous increases in aid for the aged, the blind, the crippled children. The average unemployment compensation check has gone up more than 60%. Michigan has built eight community colleges, 27 mental clinics and hospitals, the $100 million Mackinac Bridge, a latticework of fine highways. The bill for public improvements: close to $1 billion...