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	Maybe	1 Relevance	22 years ago	SDR	General discussion
	Maybe I'm misusing the word tangent. The brief and un-illustrated definition(s) in my dictionary are not helpful ("touches but does not intersect. . ."?). Ah -- I get it: the "leg" of a parabolic curve never gets to the point of being parallel with the primary axis; therefore a line parallel with that axis will join the leg of the parabola with a "jerk." Or, maybe I'm the jerk in this story. . .? (On the Boardwalk In Atlantic City, in the 'fifties, one could have made a single newspaper "front page" with the headline of one's choice; dear Dad made one for ...
	O	1 Relevance	22 years ago	SDR	General discussion
	O Hey, I'm quoting architect Rodney Friedman, of Belvedere, CA. Actually, it's one of those colloquialisms like "humongous." As I don't have a slang dictionary, it COULD be Danish for "poor posture," for all I know. Isn't Bibendum the "stack-of-tires man" which was the Michelin logo/mascot of yore? I imagine the chair was named (by whom?) after him/it.
	Furniture music,	1 Relevance	22 years ago	SDR	General discussion
	Furniture music, you say. . .can you tell us more? My library contains only a badly-outdated Harvard Brief dictionary of Music. . .1960! SDR
	nuri	1 Relevance	22 years ago	SDR	General discussion
	nuri While the "Marilyn" sofa can't be called "asymmetrical," symmetry/asymmetry doesn't much apply to the difference between Modern and Post-Modern, in my view. Translation of last sentence above: Modernism = design based on principle that form results from study of function and methods and materials of manufacture, with no unnecessary decoration added. Post-Modernism = rejection of strict functionalism and minimalism in favor of greater expressiveness, sometimes with whimsical or witty references to past styles. If English is not your first language, do y ...
	OLIGOPHRENIA!	1 Relevance	22 years ago	FUSEBOX	General discussion
	OLIGOPHRENIA! Nice call Daisy, Thanks. Yes, our less savory acquaintance b seems distinctly ingravescent, interminable, and yes even oligophrenia. Perhaps Santa should send her a "Dictionary for Dummies" this Christmas.
	Dog-gonnit b, Can't you do...	1 Relevance	22 years ago	The Daisy	General discussion
	Dog-gonnit b, Can't you do... Dog-gonnit b, Can't you do better than that? Fusebox kicked your ass! And the best you can do is a comment about a dictionary? You have disappointed us. Please try again. And did you trim your bush?
	modern	1 Relevance	22 years ago	SDR	General discussion
	modern drs -- I will confess to using my 1957 Webster's College Edition and will quote their entry for modernist: "n. a person who follows or is sympathetic to . . .Modernism" (Oddly, their entry for modernism ISN'T capitalized.) Of course, this dictionary isn't new enough to include a definition of the word modern in the special meaning that design professionals and academics now use it, so my question to you is: what word or spelling do we use to differentiate our use of the word modern from the traditional and universal meaning of that word? ...
	classic. . .NOT! however,	1 Relevance	22 years ago	SDR	General discussion
	classic. . .NOT! however, We know what we mean when we say "modern classics," but there is a broader use of the term -- if you accept the work of a modern conservative such as Ward Bennett or -- ? The dictionary definitions say nothing about the design or object actually BEING old: it goes "of the highest class. . .excellence. . .recognized worth. . .established principles. . .balanced, formal, objective, austere, regular, simple,etc". There is also the reference to the ancient Greek and Roman art and literature, and, finally, (slang) "a woman's suit, ...
	B.A., A&C	1 Relevance	22 years ago	SDR	General discussion
	B.A., A&C My Penguin dictionary of Architecture (Fleming, Honour, Pevsner; 1966) says. . .Nothing about either of these terms! Hah! Okay, l'Ecole des Beaux Arts (Paris) was, during the nineteenth century, THE place to study architecture -- Richardson, Maybeck and Julia Morgan, among other Americans, studied classical precedents, selected historical building types as appropriate models for new (often large, public) buildings and learned to present their designs with ink and watercolor, using the 'poche' (darkened solid masses in plan) and extensive study of ...
	I apologize to Mr. Breuer's...	1 Relevance	23 years ago	Raymond Jepson	General discussion
	I apologize to Mr. Breuer's... I apologize to Mr. Breuer's family for misspelling his name. If I'm confused over spelling I always check a dictionary, but unfortunately, I was too lazy the other day to grab my Bauhaus book and check the spelling of one or their star students and teachers. I did not know who Alexander Girard was until you mentioned it in this post. I'm probably familiar with his work at Herman-Miller, just not his name. This isn't surprising to me though as I do not claim to be an expert on furniture design, nor am I a furniture designer.
	I wonder...	1 Relevance	23 years ago	koen	General discussion
	I wonder... Not that many years ago, I would have read the contributions on this forum with great interest...and a dictionary. But I would not have been able to contribute because due to life's circumstances I learned to write and speak english rather late in life. DA's initiators and generous hosts have mentioned a few times that they to could not participate fully because of the language barrier, so I wonder...would it be an irritant for other users if some of the threads were in other languages than english? Many moons ago we had a few exchanges in italia ...
	You know Woody...	1 Relevance	15 years ago	DudeDah	General discussion
	... books, buy Encyclopedias or dictionarys and look up "Girard" or "Case Study House". Heck, why risk the muscle fatigue associated with turning the printed page, GOOGLE IT. Dang, think of all the canvas Chuck Close could have saved over the years if someone would have told him his technique/skill would have the same, or apparently MORE, impact at 8.5" x 11".
	daisy &con -fused	1 Relevance	22 years ago	THE ROSE	General discussion
	daisy &con -fused To consult a dictonary-EASY/You do have a flair for the ordinary.
	good one rosebush	1 Relevance	22 years ago	MARTIN-55	General discussion
	good one rosebush I thought the same rosebush, "the daisy fusebox" needs his phantom assistant to fetch a dictonary!!!!!
	It was never suggested or...	1 Relevance	14 years ago	JLL	General discussion
	... are familiar with this kind of reaction. After the acclaim accorded "Hugo" Scorcese recently announced that all his future movies will be 3D. And, mirabile dictu, Jean-Luc Godard has announced that his next movie will be 3D. The word around here is that they have been paid off by a certain aspirin manufacturer. Below- still from "Une femme mariée" (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964).