Word: cools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Midtown Gallery, Robert Vickrey's sober portraits of people and places sold so fast (at prices up to $2,500) that the gallery was begging him for more pictures. At the other end of the abstract-realist spectrum, all but three of I. Rice Pereira's cool and calm abstractions ($1,400-$2,300 ), on display at the Nordness Gallery, were sold...
...neon tube emits light but remains cool. It is, therefore, not an incandescent (source) of light...
...splenetic years on the Mirror he has hissed a steady, indiscriminate choler, spraying such targets as physicians ("smooth, lying inefficiency") and dogs ("Man's Best Friend is a fake and a fraud"). A seething Germanophobe, he took the occasion of West German President Theodor Heuss's recent cool reception in England (TIME, Nov. 3) to prick the Germans with his needle quill: "All I want of them is to wait for a generation to pass before they come sidling up to us saying it was all just a big mistake...
...Cool Bucks. Despite Holiday's success, one production official complains that "putting on this show in India has been more frustrating than in any other country we've ever been in." Frustration began on the docks of Bombay, where $1,500 worth of lighting equipment was light-fingered away, continued apace when the New Delhi arrival of Old Betsy, Holiday's 20-ton icemaking compressor, was delayed ten days by a flood. Manager Carl Snyder found the stadium grounds awash in mud, although the monsoon was well over; municipal engineers eventually located a broken water main, while...
What keeps the managers of Holiday on Ice from throwing up their hands and going into the plumbing supply business is the fact that, for all its loony complications, the show turns a cool buck. Holiday Inc. grossed more than $10 million (more than half of it overseas) with six companies last season, expects to do $9,000,000 with five troupes this year...