Word: bricks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jackie Kennedy moved out of the White House on a sunny but crisply cool afternoon late last week. Until her departure, last-minute deliveries kept arriving at the red brick Georgetown house lent to her by Under Secretary of State Averell Harriman...
...elsewhere, the Communists concentrated on showy prestige projects, such as a sports stadium (still unfinished after three years), a vast brick factory, a printing plant capable of producing 40,000 newspapers an hour, though at most one in ten Guineans can read. Experts discovered that a Russian-built radio station, designed to beam the Voice of Toure the length of Africa, had been sited on an iron lode that badly interferes with transmission...
...accepting traditional forms without violating the tenets of modern architecture. Unveiled in October 1962 with Jackie Kennedy's blessing, it cuts down the size of the proposed Government buildings and places them in the background. Moreover, the new buildings will wear bay windows and be faced with dark brick or granite to match the tone of the square...
...grave in Fort Worth's Rose Hill cemetery. The arrangements were made quietly by the Secret Service. The only mourners were Oswald's 56-year-old mother Marguerite, his Russian-born wife Marina, 22, his two baby daughters and his brother Robert, 29, a Denton, Texas, brick salesman...
...Life & Death. Capralos sculpts with flat sheets of wax, folded and kneaded. Bolstered by armatures, the wax sometimes bellies out like breastplates, sometimes ripples like drapery in a breeze. He builds a mold around the wax with brick dust and melts out the wax. When the molten bronze pours in, the fluid planes of the sculpture retain in lustrous metal the quickening touch of the artist's hands. Capralos also makes minuscule bronzes, some no more than three inches high, which have the pulpy look of ancient artifacts dug up after centuries. Some are whimsical toys others complex hieroglyphs...