Word: archy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From the Greek archi and iatros, or "first physician," a title given to court physicians by both the ancient Greeks and Romans...
...painting of Dillinger's death and sketches of the Jelke trial for LIFE, For some of his best material he went to the Bowery ("You can't find any thing better to draw") and burlesque houses ("Extremely pictorial. You get a woman in the spotlight, the gilt archi tecture of the place, plenty of human ity"). Coney Island fascinated him: "Crowds of people in all directions, in all positions, without clothing, moving - like the great compositions of Michelangelo and Rubens. I failed to find anything like it in Europe...
...night, visited by 2,500 guests, a once drab ground-floor gallery of Paris' Musee National d'Art Moderne had been transformed into a gleaming room swimming in diffused light and housing what was unquestionably the hit of the show: a handsome cross section of contemporary U.S. archi-texture. Among the large scale-models and ceiling-high photomurals: Pittsburgh's aluminum-sheathed Alcoa Building, Manhattan's stilt-borne Lever House, Chicago's glass towers by Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright's laboratory for the Johnson Wax Co. in Racine, Wis. Spotlighted...