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...wife is an energetic and quirky figure who gives inspirational talks and calls herself a "life composer." In a book she wrote called Very Strange Things I've Encountered, she said her soul visited Venus on a triangular-shaped UFO. "It was a very beautiful place and it was really green," she wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yukio Hatoyama, Japan's Next Leader | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

...Oceans of their title - the paintings have a near-hypnotic effect. "People of a certain age," says Blurton, smiling, "have described them as 'trippy.'" Those eager to trance out amid the swirls of gold, gray and pink can sit and do so, as the curators have created a small, triangular, chapel-like space with the paintings, a knowing nod to the Rothko Chapel, the contemplation space-cum-museum in Houston created in 1971 with 14 of the artist's paintings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Divine Tradition from Rajasthan | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...most recent of the two is the St. Nikolaus von der Flue Chapel, which stands in an open field near Cologne. Completed in 2007, it's a narrow, five-sided windowless space, nearly 40 ft. high, with an opening at the top to admit light and a single triangular door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swiss Minimalist Peter Zumthor Wins Architecture Prize | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

...Veronese, 10 years younger than Tintoretto, was in his teens when he arrived in Venice from Verona - hence the name - and quickly became the third point in a triangular test of wills. Unlike Tintoretto, who struggled to find his mature style, Veronese shot out of the box as a boy genius - but a shrewdly humble one. Let Tintoretto play the role of Titian's perennial antagonist. Veronese would be the admiring pupil. Titian returned the favor by promoting Veronese whenever he could, especially for commissions that Tintoretto might be after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Renaissance Venice's Big Men on Canvas | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...story of the holiday goes something like this: Esther the beautiful marries into the harem of Persian King Achashveirosh (365 BCE), where she uses her influence over the king to save the Jewish people from the King’s evil advisor Hamen (namesake of those delicious triangular jam-filled cookies), who wants to kill the Jewish people for having their own unique traditions and values...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner | Title: Partying it up on Purim | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

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