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...three skyscrapers, the only 100-story structures abuilding anywhere, are the handiwork of a remarkable general contractor: Manhattan's Tishman Realty & Construction Co. Long prominent as a builder and manager of its own apartments and offices, Tishman has spread not only into building for others but into research and consulting, fields where few construction firms venture. Explains President Robert V. Tishman: "I got tired of seeing everybody else grabbing up our ideas-for nothing...
...years engulfed the presidential menage. Pastry chefs put the finishing touches on a five-tiered, 5-ft.-tall pound cake topped by a spun-sugar basket. White House florists kept a close eye on the white roses that will fill the basket. Calligraphers, their labors done, studied their handiwork on 500 invitations and "carriage cards" (for parking assignments). While aides carefully clocked the whole ceremony in advance, Lynda Bird John son underwent final fittings of the white faille wedding gown created for her by Mod Couturier Geoffrey Beene...
Poland's Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water) is hopping mad about The Fearless Vampire Killers, or Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck. Alleging that his U.S. producers cut 19 minutes of footage and otherwise tampered with his handiwork, he sputters: "What I made was a funny, spook fairy tale, and this is a sort of Transylvanian Beverly Hillbillies...
Effervescent & Erotic. To Picasso fanciers, the most entertaining parts of the exhibit are among the largest and smallest items on display. Both are the handiwork of the 1960s, and both show that even at the age of 85, Picasso remains astonishingly inventive. The largest works, of course, are Picasso's monuments, represented by the model for the recently installed Chicago Civic Center sculpture and a photomontage of a heroic female figure to be installed in The Netherlands. The smallest are the impish, effervescent, often forthrightly erotic metal cutouts. Brightly painted and deftly bent, they look like cubist paintings...
...major artistic breakthrough. So far, he points out, the forms that the U.S. has contributed to Western civilization have been largely architectural: skyscrapers, grain silos, factories, petroleum drums, bridges. But Egypt matched its pyramids and temples with obelisks and sphinxes, while Greece's Parthenon was glorified by the handiwork of Phidias. Michelangelo unified Florence's Piazza della Signoria with his 14-ft.-high David-which was positioned in front of the Palazzo Vecchio by a committee that included Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli...