Word: frameworks
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...dead tyrants. . . . The modern movement is a conscious effort to direct and canalize the stupendous energy of modern civilization between its proper architectural embankments. . . . Seizing the opportunity offered by the elimination of the requirement of gravitational stability with imagination and courage [the Modernist] has suspended about his skeleton framework a gossamer veil of glass and light building materials, and created a new style based on the old common law of architecture reformulated to meet modern needs in the light of modern economic and engineering genius...
...evening clothes a dowager says: "Oh, tell us about your trip." A sandy-haired man starts answering her verbally, shows a cinema as he talks. At intervals the lights in the drawing-room are turned on. The narrative is broken with comments or explanations. Out of this simple framework is projected onto the little screen in the drawing-room?and onto the great screen in the theatres?as exciting a travel picture as ever was made...