Word: beckon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Induced Meditation. Visitors must enter from a sunken patio below the wall, instinctively ducking as they pass through the low bronze gates. Once inside, they move down a dim 70-ft. corridor, whose ominous overhead arching is shaded from grey into black. At the end beckon gleaming golden doors, which will open automatically as visitors approach and release them into the dazzling dome (see overpage...
...metatarsal arches. Before designing the building, Architect Pereira examined the plan of every known museum, conducted an exhaustive questionnaire of museumgoers, resolved to cope with their pet peeves and hates. To beat museum fatigue, the floors are carpeted wall-to-wall; elevators spare staircase schlepping; Mies and Eames chairs beckon visitors everywhere. To defeat the claustrophobia resulting from endless galleries, there is plenty of glass and natural light. "We did not want it to be a forbidding place, full of cul-de-sacs, but a pleasant, outdoorsy place," Pereira explains. "And anyone who grows weary of marching around merely steps...
Sidewalks are filled with bundle-laden shoppers, and store windows beckon with imported washers, steam irons, refrigerators and TV sets. Outside town, barefoot peasants pad along the dusty roads with $40 Sony transistor radios slung over their shoulders. "Prices are steep," admitted one merchant, "but that's what people are paying." New Experience. Prosperity is a new experience for Guatemala, which scraped along for years in the banana-republic image-without industry, unable to import what it wanted, or even pay for what it did buy. During the regime of cantankerous old Ydígoras, graft and inefficiency, those...
Mornings, they might take off an hour and find a quiet beach, but they are back in the thick of it before the cathedrals close and bistros beckon them on to a glass of Campari, retsina, or vin ordinaire. At some point, of course, they find time to troop into the local American Express, where on a good day, a persevering type can manage to meet a friend, down a Coke, pick up his mail and a girl as well...
Fortunately, by the end, the playwright triumphs over the production. The Director tries to leave after rehearsal is over, but the six characters suddenly appear and beckon him to finish their play. Just as suddenly, they disappear, and a lone spotlight shines on him. He looks into the darkness, uncertain himself of what he has seen. He retreats from his uncertainty, leaving the audience to stare silently into that same bewildering darkness--but only for a moment...