Word: cheeke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon Rooney became maudlin, talked about his good marital fortunes and his wonderful children. His sentences might have been composed by Casey Stengel. Rooney: "But I again sound like tongue-in-cheek I seem somewhat as a smart aleck about something that's very so so wonderful." Paar: "I think you're loaded." Rooney: "I'm making a puzzling situation out of myself to you." Paar (to audience): "Don't stir him up or we're dead...
Liveliest art museum in the South is the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts at Richmond, and liveliest museum director is the man who runs it, Leslie Cheek Jr., 51. Since taking over eleven years ago, Yale-trained Director Cheek has doubled his museum space, added a theater for nightly concerts, lectures, classic old movies, and local repertory-company performances. He organized an art loan program to Virginia's main towns, built the world's first "artmobile" (an air-conditioned trailer truck that houses a miniature exhibition on wheels) to bring art to the hinterlands...
...theory that a museum should be a popular showroom of art rather than a quiet haven. Cheek even goes so far as to pipe soft music through the museum galleries (different music subtly matched to the mood of different galleries), provides visitors with canned gallery talks (on transistor radio sets) as well...
Last week Cheek announced yet another innovation. Starting in January, his museum will be open from 8 to 10 five evenings a week, as well as in the daytime. "Now, amazingly enough," Cheek beamed, "for the first time in the world, a museum will suit its visiting hours to the convenience of the citizens it serves...
Commissioned last year to design two new colleges for Yale University, Saarinen (Yale '34) quickly discovered that the standard vernacular of modern architecture would not do. First, the site was odd and irregular. Furthermore, the new colleges would have to exist cheek by jowl with two of Yale's most determinedly pseudo-Gothic structures: the ten-story Payne Whitney Gymnasium and the Yale Graduate School. Talking with students, Saarinen discovered that undergraduates want their rooms to be as individual as possible, decided that the rooms should be "as random as those in an old inn rather than...