Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ambassadors Charles Yost of the U.S., Armand Bérard of France, Yakov Malik of the Soviet Union, and Lord Caradon of Britain gathered around the polished mahogany dining table in Bérard's Park Avenue flat...
Seeking to translate this symbolic imagery into clearer, simpler compositions, Smith developed his "line drawing" sculptures, made from strips of steel welded together into flat, picture-like compositions. His masterpiece in this genre is Australia (1951), a 9-ft.-wide, predatory sort of flying queen ant that stands on a pedestal, as much signpost as symbol. Australia occupies a niche of its own at the Guggenheim, for it marks the end of Smith's apprenticeship to foreign styles and his emergence as an innovator with followers of his own. Thereafter, his works became increasingly abstract, although to the last...
...what he knows, and knows well. He talks about meeting Hammarskjold, about buying him a seashore cottage near his own, about the books the Secretary General read and his taste in art. He talks about the times they spent together, in Hagestad, the seaside retreat; in Hammarskjold's Manhattan flat while Beskow was painting the fresco in the Meditation Room of the U.N.; at Brewster, the small estate Hammarskjold had rented in upstate New York...
Every time I go to New York City I see men in those big flat overcoats that prove you're successful walking their dogs. It always made me feel to be in a world other than theirs when I saw them shuffle back and forth staring at the streetlights while the dog on the other end of their leash let go on a fire hydrant. What are the metaphysics of a dog walker's reality? They couldn't be of Nature as we know it to be natural...
...track. But gradually, after several attempts to "boycott the broads," the jockeys relented, reckoning that the girls would hang up their tack once they were exposed to the grueling grind of racing for pay. That was nearly two months ago. Now there are five girl jockeys racing at parimutuel flat tracks across the U.S., and they are confidently grabbing for the rail position...