Word: ornamentation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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, of architectural ornament through the ages). When youngsters master individual letters, they are taught to join them, although not all letters can be legibly connected. The capital letters are plain Roman capitals with a little swash here and there to celebrate the joy of writing...
...leaning majority, consisting of Jerry Brown's five choices and Stanley Mosk, named by Governor Pat Brown (with only Reagan Appointee Frank Richardson right of center). Thus the prospect is for more political quarrels that will do nothing to revive the prestige of what was once a peerless ornament of American jurisprudence. -By Bennett H. Beach. Reported by Joseph Pilcher/Los Angeles
Neutra's intellectual origins were the same as those of his more famous fellow revolutionaries, Walter Gropius, Mies and LeCorbusier. As a student in Vienna, he deplored the degeneracy of dwelling in an ornamented past and longed for the exaltation of a pure and machine-made future. His hero was Adolf Loos, the architect who declared ornament a crime. But, like the other modern pioneers, Neutra was most deeply impressed by the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright, which was published in Europe...
...should be very clear, very straightforward. A chair should say, 'Come and sit here,' and it should fit you in any position you want to sit." Thomas Moser, 47, a onetime college professor who runs a furniture workshop in a former Grange hall in New Gloucester, shuns ornament - the joints in his furniture are the only decorative elements. Moser works mostly in red-hued cherry. He says, "It's stable and tools well. You can sand it to a beautiful polish." Moser never uses stains...
...flaunt plastic badges of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, the religious emblem associated with imprisoned Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa. To show they have not lost their sense of black humor, still others express resistance to martial law by quite literally wearing a resistor, a tiny radio part, as an ornament...