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...Nantucket, Mass., in search of Moby Dick, the economy of the small island off Cape Cod began to stagnate. With the whalers gone, the population dropped from 17,000 to 3,500 and construction stopped altogether, so that today 60% of the houses predate 1840, and only the scallop industry survives, grossing about $200,000 a year...
Fashioned after Dali's dream of Santiago rising from the sea, the 13½-ft.-high by 10-ft.-wide canvas shows the saint on a rearing horse. The domelike background represents both a scallop shell (one of the symbols of Santiago) and "a whole cathedral surging from the waters." It is strikingly different from the popular Spanish depiction of Santiago as a plumed knight. While the saint waves aloft a figure of Christ instead of a sword, he throws one enormous foot out to the viewer. "It is my foot," says Dali. "I have saintly feet...
...sweater. the first recalls the never-missed "sloppy jo" of 1946; the baby sweater resembles swaddling clothes and is often trimmed with a halo of angora or a collar of flowered ribbon. Many are made with low-rounded necks. Especially popular is the scoop neck with the bite-size scallop...
Waves Around the World. If the earth were a smooth sphere, the circumpolar wind might flow in a neat circle following the parallels of latitude. But the earth is ridged with mountains and mottled with alternate patches of land and ocean. These blemishes scallop the great wind into snakelike, horizontal waves whose southern lobes sometimes reach the tropics. On the western sides of the waves the wind aloft blows toward the southeast, carrying with it masses of cold northern air. On the eastern sides the wind blows toward the northeast, carrying tropical air into the temperate zone. When two such...
...vegetable-like structures, commissioned by fantasy-loving Spanish aristocrats, began to sprout in & around Barcelona. Whether his assignment was a mansion, or apartment house, or a hunting lodge, Gaudi designed it with the same back-to-nature abandon, never passed up an opportunity to ripple or bulge a surface, scallop an edge or stick on a few mushrooming towers. To make sure that his weirdly shaped buildings were appropriately furnished, Gaudi would nev er accept a job unless he was allowed to design everything from beds and tables to lamps and plumbing fixtures...