Word: featly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...401n. in diameter, rotates with the gentlest breeze. Soaring outward from the free-moving core are finespun wire planes in the form of arcs (the sun's corona and prominences), so finely constructed that they quiver with the building's imperceptible vibration. Even more remarkable than the feat of putting it together is Sculptor Lippold's assurance that he can disassemble The Sun, pack it away in handy-sized packing crates. ¶ In Minneapolis the Institute of Arts had on view a 21 in. bronze Monkey and Her Baby, by 74-year-old Pablo Picasso. To make...
...Shirley's feat of conquering New York in one audition seems incredible, her story of meeting and falling in love with Jack has even more of a fairy-tale quality. Seems that they met last summer when playing opposite each other in a European version of Oklahoma! and proceeded to tour the Continent with both their on-stage and their real courtship. Judging from that show and from The Beggar's Opera, Shirley claims that both she and Jack perform better when they are cast together...
Broad Jump. Balding John Bennett of Marquette and the Army made four leaps over 25 ft., an unprecedented feat, and tied for first place with Indiana's Greg Bell...
...ninth inning of a game with the Phillies one night last week, three Brooklyn Dodgers strode to the plate, one after the other hit home runs to win the game, 6-5. The feat, staged by Duke Snider, Randy Jackson and Gil Hodges, was only the latest record of a baseball season in which the steady drumfire of home runs has made bleacher-sitting pleasantly hazardous and baseball fans doggedly argumentative...
...Tivoli Gardens. Boy!" The younger Saarinen clinched his position as top U.S. architect with the $100 million, 25-building General Motors Technical Center outside Detroit, hailed by Architectural Forum as "an architectural feat which may be unique in our time." A model of modern architecture, the G.M. center has glistening expanses of aluminum, greenish glass and grey porcelain façades, interchangeable office paneling and windows "zippered in" with neoprene gaskets...