Word: eye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shapes are even more exciting than the stakes. West German architects are pitching a swooping, reinforced tent over the pavilion at right, while France's designers support the roof of their eccentric circle from extended vertical ribs. Most eye challenging of all is Israeli Architect Moshe Safdie's "Habitat," a visionary, multilevel village, complete with shops. Prefabricated, prestressed concrete cubes are equipped with kitchens, bathrooms, wiring, plumbing, insulation and windows made in an assembly-line plant on the site. Then the units, averaging 80 tons apiece, are crane-hoisted into position like gargantuan building blocks. When the project...
Fear & Joy. Lemercier got permission from Rome to try again, and slowly built St. Mary's near the ruins of the old monastery. The intense work, combined with worries about his health-he eventually lost his left eye because of cancer-put him under great stress. One night in October 1960, according to his Dialogues, he had a vision of lightning flashes. Feelings of fear and joy swept over him; tearfully he cried out, "My God, why don't you speak to me?" Suspecting that he was going insane, he turned for help to Mexican Psychoanalyst Gustao Quevedo...
Magic Phrase. In Philadelphia last week, an overflow crowd jammed Irvine Auditorium to see Graham and her company. Legend of Judith attracted the most attention because Graham herself appeared in the lead role, serving as the mystic eye of a swirling storm of dancers who flashed dreamlike through the "unknown landscape of the mind." Though she moved with a quiet, serene grace, age seemed to have made its impression; her dancing carried more suggestion than statement. But if the body was a little unwilling, the flame of the spirit still glowed...
...veil, announces that she is the mother-in-law's daughter and the son-in-law's second wife. "For myself," she says, "I am she whom you believe me to be." In one of the many meanings he intends, Pirandello says that truth is in the eye of the beholder...
...formidable, and formidably unchivalrous. At the hands of defensive saloonkeepers, Carry suffered nearly as much damage as she dealt. One annoyed publican in Bangor, Me., knocked her down four times, and a gold breast pin was molded for the Topeka bartender's wife who slugged Carry in the eye...