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ephemeralTemporary. Fleeting. Transitory. ephemeral Biology 1. a short-lived organism, such as the mayfly 2. a plant that completes its life cycle in less than one year, usually less than six months How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Unlike the Mansilla & Tunon Automotive Museum in Torrejon de la Calzada, Spain (p36)--that makes its wry tribute to the ephemerality of the motor car with robust effect--this proposal by British architects Future Systems celebrates the timeless beauty of classic cars by attempting to replicate the fine lines of Italian car design in its sleek external form. Recent Western cultures apparently respond to temporal flux and the ephemerality of existence by trying to fix them in one way or another, transmuting time into space, turning the flow of history into what Schiller called the "frozen music" of architecture, be it internal or external. Weigel curiously hypostatizes the late pope's teaching as "an unprecedented magisterium," a grandiose Latinism that obscures the ephemerality of most of the material it designates. |
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