Word: rectangular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...canvas itself and is echoed by the drumlike tightness of the paper tied over the apricot jar; how the horizontal axis of the table is played upon by the stuttering line of red-wineglass, fruit, and painted fruit on the coffee cups; how the slab of bread repeats the rectangular form of the packet on the right, with its cunningly placed strings; and how all these rhymes of shape and format are reinforced by the subtle interchange of color and reflection between the objects, the warm paste of Chardin's paint holding an infinite series of correspondences...
Three night watchmen who patrol the cluttered yards of an industrial plant in the French Riviera town of La Seyne-sur-Mer were about to begin their 3 a.m. rounds when they heard five dull thuds from one of three unmarked rectangular hangars on the factory grounds. Rushing to the building, they found its alarm system disconnected but its hermetically sealed doors unopened. No intruder was spotted scaling the yard's 6-ft. walls...
...Russia, where there was virtually no tradition of sculpture, the planar impulse took two directions. One-as its name, suprematism, indicates-tried to transcend the material world. The painter Kasimir Malevich and his students, like Ilya Chashnik, devised reliefs and models that in their crisscross of small rectangular shapes and larger blocks resemble models for imaginary buildings or cities. They were, in a very rarefied sense, social blueprints, though quite unworkable ones. Perhaps Russia was the only country in which artists could seriously imagine that abstract art might attain the moral compulsion of a holy picture. Chashnik's Large...
SELF-CONSCIOUS. Dirk Bogarde's Herman Hermann watches every move he makes through an invisible movie camera. He's constantly framed by windows, doorways, odd rectangular objects. He poses, preens, acts for us. About to make love to his moist, hefty wife, he makes sure that the door of his room is wide open, glancing down the hall where the camera sits. But he never looks into it. He's too professional. Or maybe it isn't there. Or maybe it is. Or maybe this is a screwy movie...
...design innovations. All six mirrors, plus a small .8-meter (30-in.) guide telescope in the center of the cluster, are mounted on a single Y-shaped yoke that tilts and turns like a gun mount. Rather than a traditional dome, MMT's designers opted for a cheaper rectangular Y OF ARIZONA building that rotates with the telescope. A small moat keeps out dust and stray snakes, scorpions and rats. Yet MMT'S most unusual feature is its internal laser tracking system. It enables all six telescopes to follow the same object across the skies with an accuracy...