Word: jaggedness
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On the wall of his unpretentious office in infant Israel's ancient capital of Jerusalem, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion keeps a huge map. It is a map of the Moslem world; and in the midst of it the New Jersey-sized state of Israel, heavily outlined in black...
If Sidney Stewart endured war like a plague, Martin Russ resolved to pass it like a test. Russ, too, was 21 and fresh from St. Lawrence University when he joined the Marines, began keeping a day-to-day journal. What The Last Parallel lacks in art, it makes up in...
The most severe shortage of all was in steel, caused by the longest steel strike since 1952 (10 million tons lost) and record spending ($44 billion) for new buildings. Everywhere, from Manhattan's jagged skyline to San Francisco's rolling hills, the steel skeletons of new skyscrapers were...
"And Some for Chicago." Over mountains and under rivers, from Colorado's 8,000-ft. Douglas Pass to the jagged canyons of Washington's Cascades, 10,000 pipeline workers over the past 15 months blasted and burrowed at the rate of 170 miles a month, 55 miles faster...
Tamayo's answer was to scrape his palette clean, begin using grey and white. He used color sparingly in small splashes of gold, red, lavender and cerulean blue; he switched from his usually thin paint surfaces, often done in Vinylite, to full-bodied oils thickly applied to gain surface...