Word: semicircular
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...sprawls across a vast expanse on the northwestern outskirts of Moscow, a semicircular complex of 23 interconnected buildings whose cream-colored façades shine brightly in the late-fall sunshine. The sparkle is only fitting, because this is the crown jewel of Soviet academic medicine: the new headquarters of the eight-year-old U.S.S.R. Cardiology Research Center. American specialists got their first view of the buildings' endless white corridors and advanced diagnostic equipment last year, shortly after the new medical complex opened, when the Soviet Union played host to more than 5,000 physicians from around the globe...
...results are aesthetically stunning: at the end of an opera in Dreyden, the huge candle-laden silver chandeliers descend glowing white, gold and silver from the ceiling. Lowered past the grey arches of the boxes, they throw black shadows upwards. Below, dark figures in cocked hats wait, holding huge semicircular fans of metal. Waving these, they fan out the chandeliers. When the hall is darkened, they hoist the fans over their shoulders and march out, footsteps echoing rhythmically. The whole scene is the elaborate artifice of a long dead time and place, but the patterns, colors and shapes in which...
...estimated $10 million, up from the $9 million total the three networks spent in 1972. Much of that extra money went into elaborate new sets and gadgetry. CBS headquarters was sheathed in enough slanted Plexiglas to suggest a futuristic Dairy Queen. ABC's election-center reporters sat at semicircular desks that resembled, and were described by their occupants as, bumper cars. NBC's 336-sq.-ft. map of the country looked like a visual aid for Hollywood Squares: each state took on a hue (red for Carter, blue for Ford) as its winner was projected. All three networks...
...shifting world of corporate status symbols, even the humble office typewriter has a place. These days, the machine that secretaries envy is the IBM Selectric, a "single-element" typewriter that replaces the familiar semicircular bank of type keys with a removable bouncing ball of type.* The machine is symbolic of the extraordinary bounce of IBM itself, which has dominated the office typing business for the 15 years since the Selectric was introduced. This year IBM will hold an estimated 65% of the $600 million office electric typewriter market. The company's hegemony has drawn the attention of the Federal...
Reaching passenger gates should be easy via a ten-lane, 55-m.p.h. spinal highway between the two rows of superterminals (the four now operating will become 13 by 2001). DFW Executive Director Thomas Sullivan, who oversaw the building of La Guardia, Newark and J.F.K. airports, chose a simple semicircular terminal design that allows passengers to drive directly to one of 66 gates, which are all within 120 ft. of the airplanes. Older terminal designs, which often park airplanes at the ends of long "fingers," may entail hikes of as much as a quarter-mile from counter to plane...