Word: cube
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...fact, every building Hitler dreamed up could be read as pure metaphor. The outside form was always clear-as sharp and infantile as play blocks-sphere piled on cube piled on rectangle. But as inside space, the designs are illegible, and probably were meant to be. Imagine the buildings from the sketches: what rooms stare from those endlessly repeated window bays? Where do those interminable corridors go? Does anyone ever walk up that colossal staircase? They all reflect the processes of totalitarian politics-explicit in their demands, obscure in their workings...
...Illinois, the truck stops have names like Tiny's, the 66 Terminal Café, El Roy's, the Mill, the Fleetwood. They are the sort of place that serves Ann Page cherry pie with Sealtest ice cream heaped on plastic plates. With the pork chops or cube steak or fried chicken come piles of mashed potatoes and canned creamed corn or cut green beans. The Dixie puts out a fried-chicken dinner "with that come-back taste"; it also boasts a barbershop and two gift shops that sell 3-D tableaux of the Last Supper and diapers with...
...sculpture? Well, nothing that Michelangelo would recognize as such. But Smith's sculptures lend themselves to both welding and telephoning. Smith's instructions were: "Build me a six-foot cube of quarter-inch hot-rolled steel, with diagonal internal cross bracing." Industrial complied, and over the next years produced a dozen pieces for Smith, following his phone instructions or alternatively, blueprints or models...
...forest fires; four years ago, one fire consumed a tract as large as Massachusetts. The Coast Guard protects the Alaskan fishing industry from constantly marauding Japanese, Russian and South Korean fishermen. As if to symbolize Washington's dominance, the Federal Building in Juneau is a huge glass-and-steel cube that literally overshadows the rambling old stone statehouse...
...film. Director Blake Edwards (Julie's new husband) seems to believe that if a man failing off a roof is funny, then two men falling should be hilarious. After 136 minutes, Darling Lili's gags and garrulity make it as aseptic, smooth and foursquare as an ice cube...