Word: pyramidal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that light a lot of the Superdome's flaws just melt away. The Dome may have overrun its original cost estimates by more than 500 per cent, becoming the biggest gravy train for Louisiana builders and politicians in years--but so, for all we know, may have the Pyramid of Cheops, and who remembers that now? What does it matter that the Superdome is actually ugly, a vast heap of metal that now dominates downtown New Orleans? Or that it has bad acoustics and ventilation or that nobody can find the bathrooms, or that you can't see from some...
...moved back to England, first to London and then, with his American wife Betsy, to a farm in Wiltshire, where his gardening activities soon included a giant dovecot built hi the form of an Egyptian pyramid. The shapes of his pictures, meanwhile, were becoming more geometric as the Pop references vanished. A 1966 work entitled A Whole Year, Half a Day, which contained a set of twelve rectangles with increasingly large diagonal "bites" taken out of them, marked Smith's growing interest in the canvas as membrane-a surface stretching topographically over a built-up support, giving a suave...
...M.F.A.'s new-and exceedingly fuzzy-plan calls for a government built on a pyramid of local worker and neighborhood commissions and popular assemblies, organized at grass-roots levels and culminating at some indistinct point in an undefined "popular assembly." Under this system, there would no longer be a need for contending political parties. At the same time, the secret ballot would be abolished, and the elected Constituent Assembly, which is supposed to represent the voters, would be made impotent. All of the so-called people's assemblies would be fostered and directed by the military, and would...
...groceries to an intermediary for delivery to Angel Severo Cabral, a member of a group of right-wing Dominicans who were plotting against Trujillo. They apparently had expected more extensive material help from the CIA. When Cabral saw the rifles, he angrily declared: "This is the pyramid of arms, the arsenal we were promised that wouldn't fit into a garage?" In any case, four of the conspirators took one of the rifles with them when they ambushed the dictator in May 1961, though they actually gunned him down with a sawed-off shotgun fired at pointblank range...
...sculpture, though abstract, is not radically so. The strongest influence on her work has been the late David Smith. Just as Smith's work tended to keep the imprint of the human figure, vertical and gesturing, so the triangular shapes to which Pepper obsessively returns allude to architecture: pyramids and tents. The very shape of a pyramid comes drenched in an imagery of age, endurance, "primitive" solemnity. Being historical animals, we can no more see a pyramid as a perfectly abstract form than we can look at a cross without thinking of crucifixions...