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...played a decisive part. Grechko apparently argued that Czech Party Chief Alexander Dubček's political liberalization program was unacceptable from Moscow's point of view and that only a military intervention would keep the country in the Communist orbit. Even today the bullet-riddled façade of Prague's National Museum is known among Czechs as a "fresco à la Grechko...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Abrupt Change of Command | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

...distinctive, swag façade that once hung from the roof of the stands has been reproduced atop the new $3 million-plus scoreboard-only in concrete, not painted copper. Because the value of copper has risen almost as drastically as ballplayers' salaries since 1923, the original façade was melted down and sold. Perhaps it is now plumbing in a renovated brownstone. The playing surface is still alive: Merion blue grass, in texture irregular enough to promise a few historic bounces and in color a nice uneven biological green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NEW LOOK FOR THE OLD BALL GAME | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

...feet high, and though you can get on the Staten Island Ferry and feel it shiver under your feet, it can only carry half a dozen riders at a time. The Woolworth Building leans crazily, canted forward like a gothic shed in the wind. Its terra cotta façade has become a wedding cake of writhing mullions and bulging cornices; the windows glow green, and inside in plain view there are people yelling at file clerks, chasing secretaries and munching what are probably pastrami sandwiches. On the roof, like a lizard on a rock, there is a goofy dragon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gorgeous Parody | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...short." There is a gritty and lugubrious side to the Ruckus imagination. Some of the figures are gross ham-faced brutes; and the bum who presides over the entrance to Wall Street is a scarecrow fit to terrify children, a wadded mass of sacking perched on a cockeyed façade with nails bursting out of his chin for stubble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gorgeous Parody | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...detailed knowledge of the place. When one walks along the sinister, switchback gully of Ruckus' Wall Street, past the dark banks ("Manufacturers Handover") and the pullulating Stock Exchange with its Big Board and some 500 gesticulating brokers, one senses that every crocket and finial on the wildly leaning façade of Trinity Church is right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gorgeous Parody | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

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