Word: interior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the boxiness, the unattractive utilitarian interior, the bumps and various other discomforts, the effort to do anything over 40 m.p.h. of a small European car, the 1958 U.S. cars, chrome and all, are perfection...
...first two weeks, bloodless-state of balance could not last indefinitely, for two great forces were in a deadly duel to determine the fate of France. Defending the Fourth Republic was testy Premier Pierre Pflimlin, armed with constitutionality and the tough internal security forces commanded by stooped, whitehaired Interior Minister Jules Moch.* On the attack were the insurgents of Algeria, armed with the bulk of France's effective military strength and the full-throated approval of the Algiers mob. Off to one side, waiting for a summons to take over, stood towering Charles de Gaulle, whose fortunes rose every...
...plaza the size of Venice's San Marco. Created in a style Architect Harrison calls "modern baroque," the new Met will have five huge, barrel-vault cantilevers rising to a height of eight stories at the entrance, grille-and-glass façaded sides, and a horseshoe interior seating 3,800 (v. the Met's 3,612). The 108-ft.-deep stage will be serviced by a 14-story stage loft and three movable stages, one equipped with turntable...
...close movies, theaters and cafes. Working with unprecedented speed, the Deputies gave him the powers he wanted within the day -and did so by one of the biggest majorities (462 to 112) accorded any French Premier since World War II. Pflimlin brought in as Minister of the Interior 65-year-old Socialist Jules Moch, who won fame in an earlier cold war stint in the Interior Ministry as a merciless...
Author Bazin, 47, writes sparely or sensuously as the mood of his novel demands. His insights into feminine psychology are acute, and a book that might have succumbed to formula patness moves with a mythic interior logic. Rarely, indeed, has a mere man so well defined the dynamics of the female life drive, in which man is at once a biological necessity and an emotional luxury...