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The letters were coming out strange and blockish, neither English cursive nor the German-style Kurrent script I had been taught years ago by my tutor.

“Let’s just stay here for a while,” I suggested, desperate for a reprieve from steering the blockish van through traffic.

Stylistically, these bulky sculptures are like many in the show, whether large or small — solid, blockish, refined but not delicate.

The buildings seemed to creep out of one malaise — blockish and socialist — into another, the faux modernity of pasting blue-and-brown glass squares onto the facades of crumbling buildings.

Azuma Baseball Stadium was built in the late 1980s with a modernist design, blockish and concrete.