Origin of the word Dada
The origin of the name Dada is unclear; some believe that it is a
nonsensical word. Others maintain that it originates from the Romanian
artists Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco's frequent use of the words da,
da, meaning yes, yes in the Romanian language (Engl. equivalent: yeah,
yeah, as in a sarcastic or facetious yeah, right). Still others
believe that a group of artists assembled in Z=FCrich in 1916, wanting a
name for their new movement, chose it at random by stabbing a French-
German dictionary with a paper knife, and picking the name that the
point landed upon. Dada in French is a child's word for hobby-horse.
In French the colloquialism, c'est mon dada, means it's my hobby.
It has also been suggested that the word "dada" was chosen randomly
from the Larousse dictionary.
According to the Dada ideal, the movement would not be called Dadaism,
much less designated an art-movement. - Wikipedia
Chair
A chair is a piece of furniture for sitting, consisting of a back, and
sometimes arm rests, commonly for use by one person. Chairs also often
have four legs to sup****t the seat raised above the floor. Without
back and arm rests it is called a stool. A chair for more than one
person is a couch, sofa, settee, loveseat, recliner or bench. A
separate footrest for a chair is known as an ottoman, hassock or
pouffe. A chair mounted in a vehicle or in a theater is simply called
a seat. Chairs as furniture typically can be moved.
The back often does not extend all the way to the seat to allow for
ventilation. Likewise, the back and sometimes the seat are made of
****ous materials or have holes drilled in them for decoration and
ventilation.
The back may extend above the height of the head. There may be
separate headrests. Headrests for seats in vehicles are im****tant for
preventing whiplash injuries to the neck when the vehicle is involved
in a rear-end collision.
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