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Cadzao Posted 20 years ago
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spree of streamlining
"Not only was some department-store furniture beginning to assume the squared-off clichés of functionalism but designers had gone on a spree of streamling from which they have yet to return."
1. squared-off clichés = square-shaped patterns / ideas of making furniture in square-shaped patterns (?)
2. What do the author mean with "a spree of streamlining from which they have yet to return?"
2.1 What role does "yet" play in this sentence? And what does it mean?
Please help!
Cadzao
1. squared-off clichés = square-shaped patterns / ideas of making furniture in square-shaped patterns (?)
2. What do the author mean with "a spree of streamlining from which they have yet to return?"
2.1 What role does "yet" play in this sentence? And what does it mean?
Please help!
Cadzao
Top answer
spree of streamlining = a period or outburst of extreme activity to alter the design in order to make it more efficient or simple. yet = in the time still remaining Squaring off means the opposite of rounding
- spree of streamlining = a period or outburst of extreme activity to alter the design in order to make it more efficient or simple.
- yet = in the time still remaining Squaring off means the opposite of rounding
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spree of streamlining = a period or outburst of extreme activity to alter the design in order to make it more efficient or simple.
yet = in the time still remaining
Squaring off means the opposite of rounding
yet = in the time still remaining
Squaring off means the opposite of rounding
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A lot of the furniture sold in the department stores started to have very geometrical designs. Also, the designers started to have very geometrical designs for many of their new projects. They still need to recover from that.
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