Word: displays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nelson Gallery of Art, a stage festooned with candelabras was the setting for a recital of faded favorites by such composers as Rossini, Liszt and Chabrier. On the Liberty Memorial Mall, an old-fashioned fireworks display climaxed a promenade concert of orchestral chestnuts (Suppé's Poet and Peasant Overture, Strauss's Blue Danube). All over town last week-from century-old French costumes and sketches at the public library to art nouveau table settings at Halls department store-the style was redolent of the era of the potted palm...
...spent hours gazing through his telescope at the heavens; today his Manhattan studio is plastered with NASA moon photos and maps of outer space. His constructions are essentially intended as windows looking out of the world to a celestial view beyond. His Spheremusic #2, currently on display at New York's Whitney Museum, combines shining globes in concentric circles, like a baby planetarium. "The ball," he explains, "is the symbol of the infinite, of geometry, of an infinite continuum...
...examined the mock-up last week were reasonably certain, however, that the Proton is a prototype of one of the sections of a manned orbital-reconnaissance vehicle or even of a lunar landing craft that will be assembled in orbit before heading to the moon. The Proton on display in Paris consists of an 8-ft -diameter core section surrounded by a 14.8-ft.-diameter outer shell that could contain instrumentation and life-support systems. U.S. space experts suggest that the outer shell could serve as a shield to protect the craft against micrometeorite hits during prolonged or biting...
Swans & Minarets. Artists and critics went overboard, comparing Queen's primitive tapestries to Klee, Picasso and the works of the Sienese quattrocento masters. Couture houses deluged her with scraps of silks and satins. Last month another 38 of her newer, brighter works went on display. Buyers snapped up all but ten that Kalman deliberately held back, and last week gallerygoers were still flocking to see the remaining few. Movie Actress Joanne Woodward became a Queen collector...
Louis to go on display under a model of Eero Saarinen's St. Louis arch out side the $250,000 U.S. pavilion. In side the pavilion, 75 companies plugged their products with splashy displays...