Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life seem as boisterous as his art. He reportedly beat his first wife and wore out his second, having an aggregate of some dozen children. Like Rembrandt, he eventually went bankrupt, since, for all his subsequent popularity, he never during his life commanded the prices paid to Bartholomeus van der Heist, whose stiff portraiture was the rage...
...with bronze-anodized aluminum, will form the central element in the $160 million Maine-Montparnasse redevelopment project being built on the site of the gutted Gare Montparnasse. It will import from New York City the shape, roughly, of the Pan Am Building, the color and texture of Mies van der Robe's Seagram tower. The skyscraper complex will include a five-story, 250-room hotel, a department store, restaurants, galleries, shops, a skating rink, a movie theater and a 1,500-car underground parking lot. Near by will be two office-apartment buildings (one 20, the other 19 stories...
...clocks ticking in perfect unison in the bedroom of his Vienna apartment. At rehearsals, he can be a demanding despot, responding to mistakes by roaring "Wot! Wot! Wot!" But his dictatorial ways are all in service of the music. He feels, for example, that an opera like Der Rosenkavalier must be performed at least 20 times before conductor and orchestra are worthy of it. Having conducted it 120 times himself, he now says proudly: "I have it in my wrist...
...Der Boss," as he is known to his employees, spends ten or more hours a day in his Frankfurt office, decides everything down to the price of a handkerchief. Just about his only diversion is horseback riding, which he does so well that he won the world dressage championship in Bern last summer. Although the firm's shares are sold publicly-and will be listed this week on German stock exchanges-Neckermann and his family own 51.8% of the stock, and there are no other big shareholders...
...granite-sheathed fagade of Manhattan's new Whitney Museum of American Art. Even in a time that has seen museum design change from the Roman palazzos favored by turn-of-the-century architects to the spiraling extravaganza of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim, and Mies van der Rohe's austere glass cube for Houston's Museum of Fine Arts, the $6,000,000 Whitney, designed by Marcel Breuer and Hamilton Smith, was the event and talk of the evening...