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...group's campaign began quietly enough last spring. What set it off was a small triangular patch of land just past the Boston University bridge, where the geese nest for a couple of months each spring. Advocates for the birds call it the "goose meadow...
...balances with a spin-heavy Cheney piece, in which Cheney "acknowledged in an interview that House Republicans bore some responsibility for the 'partisan bickering and backbiting' in Washington that he criticizes in his speeches." That was very triangular...
...GRIP For Luddites who still write with pens, A.T. Cross has developed a high-tech item to make the job more pleasant. Twist a dial on its Morph pen ($50), and the device changes from its initial cylindrical shape into a flexible triangular prism, giving you a better grip and providing soft, flat surfaces for your thumb, index and middle fingers. The rubbery material has a pleasant, almost sensual feel, and the sleek design--available in eight colors, including copper, gold and green--makes a style statement...
...steel towers of bare-bones Modernism shouldered everything else to the margins. A very different future is visible today in a small outburst of buildings that repudiate the very notion of upright walls. Bellied-out sides, canted planes, solid walls that look like fluttering strips of ribbon, blade-edged triangular outcroppings and brassy materials that shimmer like something Cher would wear to the Grammys--what's under way here is a rethinking of space and form as complete as any since the spirals of the Baroque overtook the spare symmetries of the Renaissance. If this is the future, then...
...gave as an example the task of designing the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt. The Museum was planned for a tight triangular space close to a cathedral. Hollein envisioned the cathedral as a "ship," and created an edifice resembling a "ship" traveling in the opposite direction...