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...Woolworth building, but to Woolworth Gothic the Soviet architects added adornments borrowed from classical sources, and some of their own devising. Thus all eight vysotnye carry tall spires mounting garlanded Red Stars and as many Doric and Romanesque pilasters, rococo arches, turrets, flying buttresses, rooftop pergolas, asparagus-shaped domes, gingerbread plaques and ferro-concrete statuary as the construction will stand. The skyscrapers got the lion's share of Russia's postwar building resources, but the Communists received poor value for their money. Plumbing failed, elevators stuck, doors and windows were full of cracks, balconies fell into the street...
...married Screen Star Yoshiko Yamaguchi), concentrated on deliberately crude ceramic sculptures molded from the native earth, and modeled partly on prehistoric Japanese idols. The ceramics in last week's show were mainly semi-abstractions of figures and faces. They looked lumpish and exuberant at once-like the gingerbread cookies of a playful and somewhat inebriated baker...
Next day the Britons gawked at a lavish agricultural exhibit, where Bevan peered dourly at the gilt-and-gingerbread buildings, commenting: "Pure Victorian. All show. This is the Victorian age of Russia. An immense show of wealth, concealing poverty. The landau at the door, the servants in the attic." At lunch there were long silences between toasts, broken at last by Attlee, who abruptly asked: "How do you get your milk in Moscow?" The Russians told them, in a laborious hum of translation, broken by the clear, social-worker voice of Dr. Edith: "I'm not interested in yield...
...Bleak Deadlock. Next day Castillo Armas and Monzón flew to San Salvador for the first meeting in the gingerbread presidential palace. In high hopes, the two old friends started talks at 3 p.m. But twelve hours later, there was only a bleak deadlock. The issue: Which of them should take top power and responsibility? Sleepless Jack Peurifoy learned in alarm of the impasse and caught a plane to San Salvador. Looking like a dashing sportsman in a green Tyrolean hat and checked jacket, he talked separately with Monzón and Castillo Armas (whom he met there...
Wellspring of the show was the genius of Andersen himself. Born to a poor and slightly unbalanced cobbler, Andersen liked to dabble in art; he was pretty good at cutting out silhouettes, once designed a whole new set of shapes for gingerbread cookies. But Andersen's real gift was painting word pictures that appealed to children everywhere. Nearly all of the youthful illustrators who submitted entries in the current show were already familiar with Andersen's tales in their own languages...