Word: gingerbread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vienna-born, Koerner came to the U.S. in 1939, lives in a Victorian gingerbread-style house in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill section. His new pictures deal, often harshly and always provocatively, with the basic human condition, especially in America. As pictures, they have beauty, but their content is seldom beautiful. "America's beauty," Koerner jauntily explains, "is in its ugliness...
East Hampton, L.I., John Drew Theater: Leueen MacGrath and Tom Helmore in Gilt and Gingerbread...
...about 30 miles northwest of Moscow, leveling the site for the first of several self-contained "Sputnik [satellite] towns" designed to move both industry and workers from the congested capital. Total population of each Sputnik: 65,000. After studying British and Scandinavian models, Soviet architects broke with the clumsy gingerbread architecture of the Stalin era, planned ten sections of four-story apartment houses to be assembled from prefab materials and set down amid flowers, shrubbery and ornamental ponds, as well as shopping centers, nurseries and kindergartens. Express buses will link the satellites to Moscow...
...Macmillan was caught up from the moment of his arrival in a Muscovite version of Anastas Mikoyan's recent visit to the U.S. From the airport Radio Moscow carried his initial words ("serious talks . . . better understanding") to a nationwide audience. As his Moscow residence. Macmillan was assigned a gingerbread Victorian mansion once occupied by Russia's ex-Premier Georgy Malenkov (who now presumably sleeps near a power station in remote Kazakhstan). Ahead of Macmillan lay the Inevitable ballet performances. Kremlin receptions, the tours of collective farms, visits to Kiev and Leningrad...
...Square is living modern. With nearby Quincy a geometrical tombstone to Georgian elegance, Cronin's due to explode into a seven-story hygenic skyscraper, and the Harvard Trust new-faced with fresh brick and steel, the Square sloughs off its gingerbread and tries to make "form fit function...