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Wooden Wallpaper. A wallpaper with a .003-in. covering of grained and stained walnut, birch or cherry wood was put on sale by Chicago's Denst & Soderlund Associates, Inc. The paper, made in West Germany, comes in rolls, or in squares for parquet effect on walls. Price: 25? to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jan. 11, 1960 | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

Garrulous Raconteur. London's critics hail Bratby as the brightest and best of the Kitchen-Sinkers, and London art buyers snapped up all but a handful of his new paintings. "He can be visually greedy, slightly coarse-grained, literal, shocking in a good-humored, terrier sort of way," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sink & Swim | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Passion in the Church. The concerts took place in the 17th century Saint-Pierre Church. There, beneath an improbable altarpiece of gilded cherubs and bare-breasted angels, Cellist Casals shuffled in from the vestry on short, hesitant feet, bearing a brown-grained viola da gamba by the pegs. When he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Legend of Prades | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

At 5,800-ft. altitude a gully 60 ft. deep had cut through alternating layers of sandstone and clay. The clay was barren but the sandstone was stuffed with stone tools. Five thousand square feet of the highest sandstone layer yielded 117 stone cleavers, 157 axes, 48 scrapers, hundreds of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

INGE BORKH, 36, a big-voiced, big-framed German soprano, sings brilliantly in such muscular roles as Elektra and Salome, overacts with boisterous Germanic abandon. Last week, in her Met debut, she acted a coarse-grained Salome. She danced enthusiastically, handled her voice intelligently and, in the final long soliloquy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Voices at the Met | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

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