Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...things made in the U.S.A., turned naturally to the U.S. for an architect. Breuer responded with a clear, simple idea: "Essentially a department store is a big, empty box built around a central circulation core, with the walls closed to provide ample storage." In a move away from glass, he sheathed the box in travertine, employing hexagonal forms to give the façade the overall pattern of a honeycomb, set in slit windows (Rotterdam shoppers like to check materials in the sunlight). Here and there he opened up the curtain wall with bands of windows for the interior restaurant...
...glow of the ivory through the delicate colors to enhance the flesh tones. They were achieved with a meticulousness that required as many as 50 sittings for a portrait, demanded thousands of stipple or hatch brush strokes so infinitesimal that they can be seen only through a magnifying glass. With a head painted on so small a scale, the painter was in major trouble if he made even a minor slip. Technically, the art demanded perfection...
...generally rueful, whether he was commenting on his physical "cowardice" or remarking on his "steely cheerfulness in what does not afflict me personally." He read hugely, but at times with so little discrimination that his head felt full of "pebbles and rubbish and broken matches and lots of glass picked up 'most everywhere.' " When he was losing his eyesight he devoted hours to reading Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, but lost patience after two pages of a book about D. H. Lawrence's sex-ridden Lady Chatterley's Loner. The critique was, he thought, a piece of propaganda...
There one full martini glass stood off from the crowd. In the grayish liquid left undrunk, a green olive floated half-way up--there it was, not on the bottom where a rotting olive should have been, but floating an unsuspended half...
...Penny Earned. In Hartford, Conn., a burglar quietly broke the glass in the front door of the Eastern Automotive Co., skillfully disconnected the alarm, forced open the empty cash register, desperately ripped open the sales-tax container and cleaned...