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...opinion is sharply divided on his direct challenge to the glass façade. The principal question: Will the grille become a cliche and a cover for bad architecture? Says Manhattan Architect Philip Johnson: "The New Delhi embassy? How could I help but love it? It's a jewel! But architecture is more than putting up drapes in front of a house to hide it." Architect Eero Saarinen (TIME Cover, July 2, 1956) feels that the New Delhi embassy "marks a new turning point toward stateliness and dignity," but also thinks that "the best thing that could happen...
...profile on a hillside, the prismed First Presbyterian Church of Stamford, Conn, rests like a huge, stranded whale, its ribs exposed in transparent, jewel-colored flesh. Dedicated last week, the $1.5 million, six-story-high structure seats 800 people in a Gothic-spirited interior with a steel-reinforced frame standing out as part of the decor. There are no buttress-type supports, and the sharp-sloping walls, of interlaced, precast concrete panels, are embedded at midsection and tail with 20,000 inch-thick, stained-glass chunks. It is the first church designed by Skyscraper Architect Wallace K. Harrison (U.N. Building...
...shady operator who manufactures phony champagne. Deftly dodging the draft with a feigned fit of epilepsy, Felix lights out for Paris to live by his wits. He rehearses them at the border. When a wealthy woman, Mme. Houpflé (Susi Nicoletti), stands next to Felix during customs inspection, her jewel case somehow gets mixed up with his belongings, and he finds himself just too shy to mention the fact. Theft? Perhaps. But Felix likes to think of it as "manipulated luck...
...Paris the young adventurer hires on as a lift boy in a posh hotel. And who turns up? The lady of the jewel case, of course. It develops that her husband owns "the biggest pâté factory in Strasbourg," and the wife lives high on the goose. More luck, and Felix manipulates it skillfully. The lady tears the uniform off him one evening, flings him into bed. Later she forces him to steal the rest of her jewels while she cries: "Oh, how delightfully you debase...
...What idea, if any, do you have of the second law of thermodynamics?', and an air of goggle-eyed stupefaction comes over the party. When my wife married me she thought a machine tool was something very small and bright and had a sort of red jewel...