Throughout the 20th century, straight lines were allied to modernism, starting in the 1920s, when graphic simplicity trumped the sinuous curves of Art Nouveau.
Today, art historians are rethinking this idea; they see art operating on several continuums from the 19th century straight into the 21st.
Although in the United States the technique was first practiced at the turn of the 19th century, straight-line planting in rows parallel to field boundaries and regardless of slopes long remained the prevalent method.
Black History Month 2016 swept me past my generation and my personal memories, past Obama, MLK, Rosa Parks and the great achievements of the 20th & 21st centuries and straight back to the dawn of the African American experience: Slavery.
Emil Corsillo joked that he is even thinking of updating the mythic gay "hankie code" for 21st-century men, straight and gay alike.
Mr. Cavalli's collection was strong on coats, especially stone-encrusted shearling and paper-thin black leather worked with the delicacy of a Victorian blouse, but the baroque and tattered underpinnings, meant to evoke Tangier and Venice at the turn of the century, looked straight out of an old sea trunk.
It's a smooth conduit into Waterland, a region of lush polders formed from lakes drained in the 17th century, Mondrian-straight bike paths and unspoiled villages.
When man or nature or Gillette has not yet found a good solution to a problem, we tend to stick closely to whatever looks even marginally plausible — the process that gives us centuries of the straight razor and styptic pencil, and now Mayor Bloomberg for three terms.
Except for twenty-five years (1797-1821) the British pound was on a gold-coin standard for two straight centuries (1717-1914).
"They're skipping the 20th century and going straight to the 21st.
