The Unit Blocks — with nothing to hold them together, and difficult to move when assembled — encourage a more fluid, open-ended process that is never quite finished and easily started anew.
Although industry analysts predicted the album would top the Billboard 200 chart, it ultimately debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 with sales of 99,000 units, blocked by Adele's album 21.
There were armoured police units blocking the streets – rows of them, black-clad, visors down.
Earlier this month, Idaho Second District Judge John Bradbury revoked the permit, asserting that the state did not adequately assess the hazards of the shipment, particularly the consequences of an accident involving one of the immense processing units blocking the highway.
On Monday, a sheriff's vehicle escorting Mr. Biden's motorcade in Albuquerque was hit by a car that went around two units blocking an intersection, injuring a sergeant in the vehicle.
But unit blocks are still standing.
They may look simple, but unit blocks have been used to construct a surprisingly long-lived and sturdy educational edifice.
And when the unit blocks your view, you have to pull over to pry the unit off the window to reinstall it.
Her unit blocks are bigger than Fröbel's but small and lightweight enough to allow for either individual or collaborative building.
The blocks' inventor, Caroline Pratt, also founded the progressive City and Country School, where, coincidentally, Mr. Viemeister's two daughters study, and where the Unit Blocks are, yes, building blocks of the curriculum.
