Word: art
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main problem was to combine glass, which frames views of the Kreeger's 5½-acre lot, with hanging room for their art. To solve their problem, Johnson chose a style that he terms "Mediterranean modern," designed the house as a series of modular galleries topped with lifted cross-vaults. These give it a vague resemblance to Istanbul's domed Hagia Sophia, which has led some Washington wags to dub it "Bauhaus Byzantine...
...town house than like the typical suburban American home. The exterior is handsomely faced with slabs of honey-colored Italian travertine. Sculpture by Maillol, Arp, Lipchitz, Moore and Noguchi is placed on a terrace at the back, overlooking the pool. Inside the house, Johnson created a neutral background for art by covering the walls with carpeting dyed to match the travertine...
...moment, the only room in the house without paintings is the master bedroom. Carmen Kreeger has banned all art there so that when visitors come, there will be no excuse to invade their hosts' privacy. Civic groups and philanthropic organizations are already badgering the Kreegers with requests to send groups to view the collection. In time, says Kreeger, he may well make both house and collection into a museum. But for the time being, the Kreegers would like to keep it mainly for themselves and their friends...
Enough Schenley stockholders accepted a tender offer to give Riklis' Glen Alden Corp. 88% control of the big distiller (1967 sales: $518 million). Fat with $323 million in working capital, Schenley was a tempting merger plum. As befits Riklis' guiding philosophy-described as the art of buying companies with their own money-Glen Alden is paying for Schenley mostly with promissory paper. For each H Schenley shares, worth about $85 in the stock market, Schenley stockholders get $13 in cash; they also get a $100 debenture that pays 6% annual interest until its 1988 maturity. Riklis can thus...
...becomes sicky. Bob is a paranoid who imagines that an organization is out to expunge him. Unfortunately, it is all in his imagination, and to comfort himself he zooms about in a sports car and plays with rifles, speedboats and other supertoys. All sorts of devices are used-pop-art intercuts with Lichtensteinish comic strips, chases through the Alps, love scenes that are neither erotic enough to titillate nor witty enough to be put-ons. "When a life is empty," the scenario sighs, "it is hard to fill it." It is even harder when a picture is empty...