Word: fountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scrolls, a Fountain. Coming to the U.S. from his native Vienna in 1926, Kiesler took up teaching at Columbia in the 1930s, amazed his students with suggestions that they develop spiral buildings, semicircular projection screens, "floating cities" wrapped in cocoonlike weather protectors, and "horizontal skyscrapers" suspended like bridges. In the 1940s he built great open sculptures and clusters of pictures "to relax inside" and designed striking stage sets for No exit and The Magic Flute...
...camaraderie. He autographed their short-snorter bank notes, received with thanks a map showing the point where Soviet and American troops first met before V-E day. When Alexander Lieb of Sherman Oaks, Calif, gave Khrushchev a ballpoint pen as a souvenir, Nikita, laughing, handed over a more expensive fountain pen in return...
...time she was ten she was dancing tiny roles. At 18 she joined the Leningrad Ballet and remained there until she was called to the Bolshoi. Now nearing the end of her career, she concentrates on three full-length roles-Juliet, Giselle and Maria (in The Fountain of Bakhchisarai...
...with a taste for monuments, General Miguel Molina, prefect of Cuzco, decided one day a century ago to dress up the city's main plaza. He thereupon put up a bronze fountain, embellished by four Tritons and topped by a 5-ft. bronze statue identified as Atahuallpa, last of the Inca emperors, who was executed by the Spanish in 1533. But over the years the suspicion has grown in Cuzco that the lofty figure is not Atahuallpa at all. It seems, instead, to be the North American redskin Powhatan, chief of the Algonquins and father of Pocahontas...
What fascinates Hodgson these days is the source of poetry in other tapped-in men. "Where did De la Mare get that line: 'But she walking there was by far the most fair'? It's not manufactured. He was rather like a cup under a sparkling fountain." As he holds out his own cup, Hodgson is constantly "as interested as a blackcap working his way into a stone wall looking for spiders...