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Punched Shaft. The building, designed by Edward Durell Stone, is a shaft of polished Vermont marble punched by 1,472 portholes, its Venetian façade bent to the arc of Columbus Circle. Inside, is a giant staircase that spirals around the intrusive service core and fire stairs required by city ordinances, and makes landings at the galleries...
...spanking new Paris Cinema, with its drunken murals of Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe, with its little attendant in gendarme costume (a la Jack Lemmon) who welcomes all with a sheepish "bon soir," with its rotund manager exuding continental pleasantries in Maurice Chevalier tones as he hustles customers to their upholstered seats, really put me in the mood for Billy Liar...
...give themselves historic tutors, the brethren drew up a list of 57 "immortals" whose ideals resembled their own. Among them were Jesus Christ, Joan of Arc, Opera Composer Giovanni Bellini, and Coventry Patmore, a minor romantic poet. These models supplied them with literary and moral inspiration. The brotherhood even published a little magazine, The Germ, in 1850 "to encourage and enforce an entire adherence to the simplicity of nature...
Like huge Japanese lanterns, the harbors along Japan's jagged coast sparkled at night last week with the blue fire of acetylene welding rods and the white glare of arc lights. The lights burned overtime as Japan worked to meet the greatest shipbuilding boom in its history. All 54 ways at Japan's nine major shipyards are occupied; one ship is barely launched before a new keel is laid...
...directs all the breeding: "I enjoy making up my mind for the matings, and then seeing the babies." His most successful match produced Exbury, winner of all five races he was entered in this year, including the world's richest cup, the Prix de 1'Arc ($197,000). Figuring that Exbury could not top that record, Guy retired him, and the horse henceforth will earn $240,000 a year at stud-accommodating up to 40 mares a year at $6,000 per service...