Word: drapes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about creating the world, the sky, the sun and moon and Adam and Eve with an air of happy surprise. The Devil is a horned and hairy-bottomed practical joker who tosses what monkey wrenches he can into Cod's works. The angels are busy little helpers; they drape swatches of fabric around the skinless animals so that the Creator can judge which hide suits which beast; they also hold up various kinds of sky like wallpaper samples...
Instead of a plain, almond-shaped sack, designers are moving the hemline up, the neckline down, taking in waists, adding pleats, ruffles, tapered skirts, brighter colors all around. And for each new style, there is a new name: side-draped "toga coats" by Jacques Griffe; the slope-shouldered "Sling Drape" by Castillo of Lanvin; the gently indented Egg-Cup Silhouette" by Jacques Heim. Three of the most important "looks" (see cuts) : Pierre Cardin's tapered "Sickle Silhouette," Guy Laroche's bouncy "Flounce Look," Dior Designer Yves Saint-Laurent's loose and swinging "Trapeze Line...
...Twentieth Century: Names make news, but do men shape history? For generations to come, while philosophers debate this question, historians will drape much of the story of the first half of the 20th century about the grand and portly frame of a name: Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. The historians got a powerful exhibit for their case this week from a new and promising CBS television series dedicated to The Twentieth Century. Examining the events that make up the recent past, dominate the present and tinker with the near future, The Twentieth Century (Sundays at 6 p.m.) began its 26-week...
...humidifiers not yet in action. McEwen found that the dangerously low humidity was stretching the priceless canvases so taut that "they were ready to explode." To fight the dry air, McEwen and his Rhodesian sculptress wife, Cecilia, night after night dashed between their .flat and the gallery to drape damp towels over the frames of the stretching masterpieces. When asked about the effect of this do-it-yourself humidifying on the canvases, McEwen had a ready answer: "Emergencies demand drastic measures. That was all we could do. Anyway we saved the day-or rather the nights...
...nave, resting against a concrete cylinder that houses the echo organ and at the apex of a concrete parabolic arch that springs from the ground and spans the nave. In the great tradition of Byzantine religious art, the figure is elongated and primitively covered with a boxlike drape. But the head, feet and hands are done with expressive realism, the head forceful, the chin raised with authority and grandeur, the hands held out in eloquent plea and promise, the feet slightly dragging as if in pain, a reminder of the tragedy implicit in the dramatic origins of Christianity...