Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expertise bandied about, most architecture relies basically on a massive input of common sense. A good building, like a good suit, is made of fine materials well cut and well joined. The result must cost no more than the client agreed to pay. It must fit his requirements?and at its best, the requirements of the neighborhood, the city, the culture. The buildings on the accompanying color pages point up the qualities that good building must possess...
Grosvenor likes nothing better than to design a work to fit a particular space. But he has learned that there is nothing more important than the choice of a client. Invited by Hugh Hefner to do a lobby for a Playboy Club in Wisconsin, Grosvenor proposed a piece so large that people would have to walk over or around it. Hefner never actually told him in so many words that it would not do. "Next thing I knew," Grosvenor recalls, "they were buying $9,000 trees to put where my piece was supposed to go." Grosvenor is currently at work...
...short but otherwise normal body build, and dwarfs as having some other physical abnormality in addition to short stature, McKusick lists 20 different conditions as causes of subnormal growth. Among the conventioneers, he found at least one representative of almost all the types, and some who appeared to fit no known category, suggesting that the classification table will now have to be extended...
...Both Chris (Anthony Perkins) and Paul (Maurice Ronet) are warped in Chabrolian high-style: bored and restless, willful and given to practical jokes. Chris thinks nothing of using his body to promote money from his wife or stealing from her purse, and Paul destroys a television set in a fit of rage after having terrified a dinner party with a toy mechanical mouse...
...dramatically interesting story that occurs at a human level, a story resonant with analogies so complex and yet, at moments, instantly and strikingly identifiable, that it fleshes out the political fact. The turbulence of war, the patterns of black-white intimacies, the historically right setting, all these are fit ingredients for such a story. And finally, most important, the touches of unstammering, heroic rhetoric to scald the benches into the grip of the ultimate social and political meanings...