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...begun by Napoleon, introduced the skylight roof on a grand scale, and with it natural overhead lighting-but without bright success. In 1857 London's Victoria and Albert Museum experimented with fishtail gas jets, lighted by a traveling pilot light that was propelled along a track by a clockwork motor; in 1877 the Victoria and Albert made the first experiment with indirect lighting when military searchlights were reflected from an overhead muslin screen to illuminate paintings. Today, says New York's Metropolitan Museum Director James Rorimer. "the big question is. do you use daylight or electricity?" The obvious...
...week's end, as regular as clockwork, Algeria's Minister Resident Robert Lacoste issued another of his familiar claims -that the rebels are on the run, and everything will shortly get better if the present policy is followed...
...Fountain's fatal weakness is an unnatural and very unmusical style of dialogue. Modeled on Victorian storybooks for young readers (e.g., "Children, is it not about this time that the lapegeria comes out at Kew?"), it makes all the characters, without exception, sound like awkward, clockwork dolls. Too bad, because Rebecca West's descriptions of period colors, clothes, homes and mealtimes recapture the world of half a century ago as brightly as a painted canvas...
Since not even all Communist leaders are alike, the Kremlin tries to put their differences to work. The result is something like an old-fashioned cuckoo clock with a smiling face emerging to indicate sunshine and a dour face to indicate storm. The idea used to work like clockwork, too: dour or smiling, the face was still Communist. But the leaders whom the Kremlin now has to call on are men.who have suffered for their deviations, Marxists with the mark of Communist prisons on them, and ideas of their own. The men called back to power in Hungary last week...
...nights he pored over books "on how to become a $5,000-a-year man." After a short-lived job with a druggists' syndicate, Marx stumbled "by sheer happenstance" into an office-boy's job with Ferdinand Strauss, whose Zippo the Climbing Monkey and Alabama Coon Jigger (a clockwork minstrel) were the first mechanical toys mass-manufactured in the U.S. Within four years, Marx had been promoted to manage the company's East Rutherford, NJ. plant, and soon afterward he had his first idea for a toy. One of Strauss's products was a toy horn that bleated "Mamma, Papa...