Word: clothes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frame and enclose such a huge space is an opportunity that doesn't come often to an architect," says Ed Stone. "Neither does the problem of spanning 350 feet. Why, you could put the University of Arkansas' football field in here and still have room." In the cloth velarium used by Roman emperors to cover the Colosseum, Stone found his solution to roofing the largest free-span circular building ever erected. He devised a bicycle-wheel system of cables, each under no tons' tension, to hold up the pavilion's 68,400 sq. ft. plastic outer...
Added Reporter Jackson: "She has a delicious sense of humor and laughs readily. We all became very good friends, possibly because we all wore the same costume-blue tank suit and white terry-cloth robe...
...high life and ceremony was not merely personal; pomp and circumstance were a matter of public relations, an art in which Wolsey was a master. A high point of his career came when he stage-managed the futile but beautiful pageant known to history as the Field of Cloth of Gold: in a pleasant French valley, England's King Harry and France's young King Francis I met to pledge a treaty of friendship. It was, says Author Ferguson, "the last great canvas of the Middle Ages ... it marked the end of the age of chivalry and somehow...
...Winning the support of some 75 galleries, Nordness soon had to take over five stories of a warehouse to store the 7,000 paintings and sculptures that came rolling in, sweated through a fire that burned down the adjacent building, even surmounted a last-minute crisis when the beige cloth backdrops for the show were sent to Chicago by mistake...
...such misleading names as Arctic seal, Alaska sable and Belgium lynx. As burned buyers learned to fear the fur, the trend to suburban living-with its more casual dress-trimmed the market more. Women also became choosier. Many passed up muskrat, squirrel, and other less expensive furs for good cloth coats-or waited until they could afford mink. By 1953 fur sales were scraping bottom at $250 million...