Word: gers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life of some citizens of a Southern capital, but often it seems more like a long afternoon spent in a botanical garden. From the very first page, when beautiful Stella Madden catches the delicate odor of spring, the prose thrusts up stalks of dracaena, carnations, ger-beras, tulips, coleuses, yaupon, oleander, jasmine, gladioli, magnolia and azalea. Even the characters come equipped with floral borders: Yancey, a condemned murderer, "clutches his hyacinth-red hair"; beautiful Stella thinks of herself as an or chid, is suspended on "a liana of ecstasy...
...Researchers in Boston and Chicago re ported that aged patients suffering from mental deterioration, apathy and fatigue could (in two-thirds of the cases) be brought back to greater alertness and more normal social behavior after swigging "ger iatric cocktails" containing L-Glutavite, a combination of vitamins, minerals and monosodium glutamate...
...floor. Last week Chicago's Art Institute was offering a look at that brightly decked future: 13 limited-edition (ten copies of each) rugs designed by such artists as Pablo Picasso, Joán Miró, Jean Lurçat, the late Fernand Léger and U.S. Mobile Sculptor Alexander Calder...
...Ceramics were placed on the table, and people ate out of plates and cups fashioned by artists. We decided to get prominent modern artists to design rugs which people could hang on the walls if they liked, or could actually put on the floor." The price for Léger's 7 ft. 7 in. by 3 ft. 9 in. #9 is $700, for Miró's Spanish Dancers $800; Picasso's thick-piled 6 ft. 6 in. by 4 ft. 9 in. contribution costs an even...
Turning the Mirror. The young pioneers reproduced on the following pages took their lead from such European moderns as Kandinsky, Picasso and Paul Klee, and from a slightly less exalted group-Fernand Léger, Jacques Lipschitz, Piet Mondrian, André Masson-who sat out World War II in New York. All brought essentially the same promise: instead of holding a mirror up to nature, art could mirror the inner world of the artist himself. The methods for doing this-abstraction and distortion-were as old as doddering modern art itself (i.e., almost a century), and had already been explored...