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...concert hall itself has an encouraging feeling of intimacy despite the fact that its capacity approximately equals that of Boston's Symphony Hall. The concert organ is concealed behind a transparent scrim but can be illuminated for concerts. Unfortunately, the scrim itself slightly resembles the inside of a packing crate and reveals the shadowy figures of stage hands moving about in the midst of performances. It perhaps could be successfully replaced...
...Manhattan's fading Little Italy. Inside, the furnishings are spare-some benches and tables, a cupboard. But if the house lacks furniture, it does have marvels of decor. There is a room lined with towering cases of gilded bric-a-brac. In another room, shallow honeycombs of orange-crate cabinetry are filled with carefully posed objects-chair legs, a broken wheel, a bowling pin. parts of a table pedestal, a banister, some toilet seats-all gleaming goldly. The owner of this hammer-and-nails Fort Knox is Scavenger-Sculptress Louise Nevelson...
Story hasn't changed much. Come time, the Frakes all kerplump in the old man's crate and poot up to Dallas for the Texas State Fair, "the biggest state fair in the hull U.S.A." Mom Frake (Faye) wins the plaque for mincemeat. Pop Frake (Ewell) wins the grand prize for swine. Marge Frake (Tiffin) wins one of those TV fellers (Darin), and Wayne Frake (Boone) wins one of those fast girls (Ann-Margret) from back East, but she's too fast for Wayne and the tomfool lets her get away...
Probably the most common Christmas gift this year is a Chubby Checker "Twist" record. Minute Man Records has started ordering them by the crate...
...chief triumphs are the Eden Roc and Fontainebleau hotels in Miami Beach. Thus the décor can be described as something between Bronx baroque and Mexicali modrun. A graceful, serpentine curve of the long exterior wall on 51st Street is a welcome change from Manhattan's orange-crate rectangularity, but the sea-green color of that wall mocks the eye. In the lobby and other interior areas, the combination of good materials -plastics, woods, ceramics, marble, bright metal-sometimes startles, often stuns...