Word: fountaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lives at home in Encino, Calif., with his mother, father and two youngest sisters. He supervised the recent redesigning of the sprawling Tudor house, and the result is a cross between a vest-pocket Disneyland and Citizen Kane's Xanadu in suburbia (see following story). The menagerie, the soda fountain, the screening room are dream toys of childhood and the diversions of Southern California show-business affluence, all awash in the pastels of perennial boyhood. He takes trips to the Disney parks as to a shrine. He has spoken often about doing a movie musical of Peter Pan. The parallels...
Inside his world: swans, a soda fountain and a very private wonderland...
...builtin television set. Another large clock with Roman numerals hangs above the mantelpiece. Off the den is a mahogany bar under a leaded stained-glass window with a knight in armor looking up at a black castle on a hill. The bar is really an old-fashioned soda fountain: you can have whatever you want, ice cream, milkshakes, sodas. The living room is like a garden, with hundreds of flowers printed on the couches and rugs. The dining room is more of the same: mahogany and gilt with rococo flourishes...
...bunch of bags hanging from the top of the canvas. Morley invited some friends to shoot arrows into them and re lease the paint, and the arrows remain stuck in the picture, thus supplying a missing figure: Eros, the god of love, with his bow, who stands on the fountain at the middle of the actual Piccadilly Circus. The image is a memorial to Morley's marriage, which had collapsed in bitter disarray a short time before...
...build a 66-ft-high glass pyramid smack in the center of one of the sacred precincts of French culture: the courtyard of the venerable Louvre Museum. The structure, which will be lighted at night, will be surrounded by three smaller pyramids connected by triangular pools and fountains. The whole design in itself resembles a huge frozen fountain. It will be the centerpiece of a comprehensive expansion and reorganization of the Louvre ordered by French President François Mitterrand. No price tag has been put on the project, which is expected to take five years to complete. Mitterrand...