Word: collector
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Second Bulge. At a gala banquet in Richmond, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts named the tall and stately Mrs. Brown "Collector of the Year," an award bestowed by the museum's enthusiastic society of collectors on their exemplars (past titleholders: Virginia's Paul Mellon, Chicago's Leigh Block and Cinemactor Vincent Price) in return for a chance to view some of the collec tor's prizes. For her turn, Mrs. Brown put on exhibition 78 prints, drawings and watercolors and 25 books depicting British military uniforms from Henry VIII to George V, selected from...
...opening of "Form from Process," people asked to take the chairs off their platforms and sit on them. This was impossible, for they are antiques on loan from collector John Sailer of Vienna and many museums. Katayama felt the need to solve this seemingly peripheral problem, which is crucial in terms of total space. He placed modern reproductions of the chairs along a wall of the room. Sitting in one of these chairs, a visitor ends his tour with a feeling for the interaction of Thonet, Katayama, and Le Corbusier.TOSHIRO KATAYAMA, graphic designer for the Visual Arts Center, designed...
...send the bill collector; you just may not get your Crimson. Today is the deadline for subscription payments...
LONDON is the town of the tall red double-decker buses, the buses which always appear to be on the verge of overturning as they twist top-heavily around the City's corners and through its narrow streets. The only person to keep his balance is the ticket collector, who passes up and down the aisle with easy poise, bending over each seat and rolling out a ticket from the machine hitched to his belt...
...keep. The trouble is that Bobbie must improve on Billy, admittedly a masterpiece but not enough of one to cinch the revolution in pop music that it portends. In any case, it is dangerous to underrate Bobbie Gentry, and her initial album might well qualify as a collector's item...