Calyx

On a cold February day in 2004, an FBI agent pulled an envelope out of his trench coat and handed it to Merrill, who ran an Internet startup called Calyx in New York.

Plaintiff who challenged FBI's national security letters reveals concerns 2010

On a cold February day in 2004, an FBI agent pulled an envelope out of his trench coat and handed it to Merrill, who ran an Internet startup called Calyx in New York.

Plaintiff who challenged FBI's national security letters reveals concerns 2010

Common peduncle are frequently from 3 to 4 Small leaves, being the same in form as those last discribed. other peduncles 1/4 of an inch in length are Scattered and thickly inserted on all sides of the Common peduncle at right-angles with it, each elivateing a Single flower, which has five obtuse Short patent white petals with Short claws incerted on the upper edge of the calyx. the Calyx is a perianth including both Stemes & germ, one leafed five cleft entire, Semi globular. the Stamons are upwards of twenty and are Seated on the

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

In "Calyx," her forms aren't solid and clean, like the cutouts or stencils that designs are often built around.

Lucienne Day's textiles transcended mere fabric as examples of fine abstract art 2010

"Calyx" is the name of that piece that Day designed in 1951, when her husband, the furniture designer Robin Day, said he couldn't find any truly modern textiles.

Lucienne Day's textiles transcended mere fabric as examples of fine abstract art 2010

In 1951, as that country was barely recovering from the privations and destruction of war, "Calyx" must have come across as sitting somewhere between raging folly and a blast of fresh air.

Lucienne Day's textiles transcended mere fabric as examples of fine abstract art 2010

"Calyx" won the American Institute of Decorators award, and became a smash hit in Britain as well.

Lucienne Day's textiles transcended mere fabric as examples of fine abstract art 2010

In one classic version, "Calyx" is a swarm of bizarre shapes, in yellow and orange and black, that crawl across the olive-brown linen they're silkscreened onto.

Lucienne Day's textiles transcended mere fabric as examples of fine abstract art 2010

When she showed "Calyx" to her boss there, he said he'd print it -- mostly as a favor to her and her well-known husband -- but could pay her only half the usual fee, "because he was certain they wouldn't sell a yard of it," Day once said.

Lucienne Day's textiles transcended mere fabric as examples of fine abstract art 2010

Falsified loan applications, sometimes with a special computer program called "Calyx," to make the buyers appear more attractive to lenders.

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