Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prize Catch. Like maharajahs eager for a tiger hunt, the big dealers and collectors came flocking to the humid, glass-roofed main salesroom of London's famed Sotheby's (pronounced Sutherbees) auction house. Prize catch of the lot was clearly Peter Paul Rubens' Adoration of the Magi. A 10 ft. 9¼ in. by 8 ft. panel painted by Rubens at the peak of his powers in 1634 for Louvain's Convent of the Dames Blanches, it is considered by dealers not only the best Rubens in Britain but the most important old master...
...circles and rectangles into a floor plan that he hoped would not only be practical but also allow for the whims of the owners. At the center is a circular living-dining area with fireplace. Two screened patios provide a breezeway; the corner bedrooms can be isolated by sliding glass walls and curtains or thrown open so that the house can be used to its perimeters as one free-flowing area for living and entertainment. Said the jury: "The most memorable image of all the houses we have seen...
Acknowledged shrine of modern architecture was the famed Bauhaus school in Dessau, Germany, and Architect Walter Gropius was its high priest. The boxy building with flat roofs and ribbon-glass windows that Gropius built there in 1926 laid down the line architecture was to follow for the next three decades. An exile from Hitler's Germany, Gropius introduced his methods as chairman of Harvard's department of architecture, revolutionized architecture in the U.S., became so firmly planted in architectural history that people were sometimes amazed to find him still a part of the present...
...than either." ¶England-"The girls just aren't very sexy. The shows are all in private clubs, and they're uninhibited. But the girls have little expression, and they don't move too well." ¶France-"A Parisian girl can be sexy just holding a glass. Strippers work as many as four clubs a night. They travel between joints like the Club Sexy and the Club Blushing, carrying their little bags like doctors...
...battling over steel negotiations, both management and labor naturally pick the figures that best prove their case. Determined to hold fast against any wage hike, industry points out that the steelworkers' average hourly wage of $3.08 is higher than in all but a handful of U.S. industries (coal, glass, construction). According to industry statistics, postwar wage costs have risen nearly twice as fast as the cost of living. Replies the union: average earnings do not mean anything, because the majority of steelworkers have to work at incentive pace and on undesirable shifts and normal off-days to achieve that...