Word: chromed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turbodrive" transmission for cars with the big engine, which combines a triple turbine and variable blades (like Buick's Dynaflow) for speedier getaway and better highway mileage. On bodies, Chevy spent some $50 million for a facelift: a new grille; higher, more sharply swept tail fins; a splashier chrome-and-paint treatment for the side panels. The new cars will cost more. Prices will be from $50 to $166 more per car depending on the model...
...opening exhibit the craft museum chose to show a 314-item cross section of new trends, ranging from Potter Peter Voulkos' hefty vase to SculptorWelder Harry Bertoia's rod and slab screen in bronze and chrome. Pointing out that the exhibit will travel, Aileen Osborn Webb said that she does not "think of the museum as a New York activity." By sending shows on tour she hopes to raise standards and open new horizons for creative craftsmen all over...
...symbolical side. The color has nothing whatever to do with nature . . . Through all the reds and purples run streaks of flame as though a furnace were blazing before one's eyes, seat of all the painter's mental struggles. And all this on a background of chrome yellow with childish little bouquets of wild flowers. A room for a pure young girl . . ." To Vincent van Gogh, to whom nature was everything, it was Gauguin's sunken eyes that spoke. He wrote his brother Theo: "He looks like a prisoner, ill and tormented." Theo struggled to raise Gauguin...
...clerical collars that "never need laundering," while those with large parishes would appreciate a "SACRA-KIT," the "portable sick-call set for dignity and convenience in administering at the bedside" and equipped with removable crucifix, candle holders, candles, linen cloth, holy-water bottle, and SPECIAL ABLUTION CUP ($28.75). A chrome-finish confessional counter ("numbers 1 to 9,999 turn noiselessly...
...swept-wing aircraft to give autos a jet-propelled look. Cadillac, which has long built taillights into the fenders, now houses them in circular openings that project like twin exhaust pipes above the real exhaust vents. The most complicated rear end appears on the Dodge Custom Royal Lancer, whose chrome-scrolled tail fenders sprout sharklike fins and snorkel-like radio antennae. Ford's Thunderbird had a functional reason for a big change in the rear. It hung the tire mount outside to make more room in the luggage compartment...