Word: zigzagging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most Arcadian picture in this show is Wivenhoe Park, Essex, 1816, almost the last word on Eden-as-Property. The enameled lawns and bulky cows, the relaxed zigzag of planes leading the eye toward the pink villa, the swans and fishermen riding on a serene sheet of water stitched with silver light: this is the epitome of civilized landscape. Like the best work of Jacob van Ruisdael, the 17th century Dutchman whom Constable considered a master of "natural" vision, Wivenhoe Park manages to be both real and ideal; it is a powerful (though subdued) instrument of fantasy as well...
Among the first to advocate a modern italic as the basis for handwriting reform was the English calligrapher Alfred Fairbank. His series of books, written with Charlotte M. Store and published in 1957, starts children off with simple zigzag lines to harness their natural sense of rhythm. As children draw faster, they will round off the zigs and zags either on top or bottom. Then they are taught to turn rows of circles into slightly slanted ovals. If they alternate these ovals with equally slanted lines, they have all the basic components of lower-case italic letters (and,incidentally...
...future. The history of Mexico since the end of the 18th century has been the struggle for modernization. It is a struggle that has been frequently tragic and often fruitless. To ignore this is to ignore what is Mexico today, with its economic vicissitudes and the continuous zigzag of its political system...
...reach their trains, passengers walk a zigzag detour one-third of a mile around the boarded-up building. At the end of this trek is a jerry-built replacement station. "This long walk is for the birds," groused New Yorker Aileen Gravelle, 71, dragging her suitcase along one muggy day. "And it used to be such a lovely station...
...mystery of this fiercely private and almost neurotically shy man has endured in spite of his exposure to 37 years of public life. It has been reinforced by his bizarre shifts from right to left and, especially, his zigzag relationship with the Communist Party. Most of all, the mystery has been fostered by the distance Mitterrand has placed between himself and all but his family and a few intimate friends. In the end the best analyst of the character-and the methods-of Mitterrand may be Mitterrand himself. His observations, perceptive, witty and often elegant, run through his eleven books...