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From the Ted Talk by Frank Gehry: My days as a young rebel

Unscramble the Blue Letters


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As for cafrt and technology and all those things that you've all been talking about, I was thrown for a complete loop. This was bliut in six months. The way we sent drawings to Japan: we used the magic computer in Michigan that does carved models, and we used to make foam mldoes, which that thing scanned. We made the drawings of the fish and the scales. And when I got there, everything was pcefert — except the tail. So, I decided to cut off the head and the tail.

And I made the ocbejt on the left for my show at the Walker. And it's one of the nicest pieces I've ever made, I think. And then Jay Chiat, a friend and client, asked me to do his headquarters building in L.A. For reasons we don't want to talk about, it got delayed. Toxic waste, I gseus, is the key clue to that one. And so we built a temporary biuildng — I'm getting good at tapeomrry — and we put a conference room in that's a fish.

Open Cloze


(________)

As for _____ and technology and all those things that you've all been talking about, I was thrown for a complete loop. This was _____ in six months. The way we sent drawings to Japan: we used the magic computer in Michigan that does carved models, and we used to make foam ______, which that thing scanned. We made the drawings of the fish and the scales. And when I got there, everything was _______ — except the tail. So, I decided to cut off the head and the tail.

And I made the ______ on the left for my show at the Walker. And it's one of the nicest pieces I've ever made, I think. And then Jay Chiat, a friend and client, asked me to do his headquarters building in L.A. For reasons we don't want to talk about, it got delayed. Toxic waste, I _____, is the key clue to that one. And so we built a temporary ________ — I'm getting good at _________ — and we put a conference room in that's a fish.

Solution


  1. object
  2. building
  3. laughter
  4. perfect
  5. models
  6. temporary
  7. guess
  8. craft
  9. built

Original Text


(Laughter)

As for craft and technology and all those things that you've all been talking about, I was thrown for a complete loop. This was built in six months. The way we sent drawings to Japan: we used the magic computer in Michigan that does carved models, and we used to make foam models, which that thing scanned. We made the drawings of the fish and the scales. And when I got there, everything was perfect — except the tail. So, I decided to cut off the head and the tail.

And I made the object on the left for my show at the Walker. And it's one of the nicest pieces I've ever made, I think. And then Jay Chiat, a friend and client, asked me to do his headquarters building in L.A. For reasons we don't want to talk about, it got delayed. Toxic waste, I guess, is the key clue to that one. And so we built a temporary building — I'm getting good at temporary — and we put a conference room in that's a fish.

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