Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heat water to wash its cans, Tropicana to steam-process its orange juice. Solar energy provides heat or hot water or both in a visitors' center at Mount Rushmore, S. Dak., Disney World's office block in Orlando, an Atlanta public school, and urban cooperatives in Lower Manhattan...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan, a superb Monet show...
...mark the event, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art has put on a sumptuous show titled "Monet's Years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism." It contains 81 paintings-a third of them lent by the Musée Marmottan in Paris, all of them images from the garden. We see, lined up, the different versions of each motif that Monet so obsessively worked at, in every possible variation of light, laboring to divide nuances into further nuances and stabilize their intervals with the devotion of a particle physicist: the poplars, the haystacks, the rose-twined tunnel of the arbor...
DIED. Richard Lindner, 76, German-born painter whose brassy, cartoon-like and often sinister depictions of women had the bite of Brecht and the machine-like surface of Léger; in Manhattan. Lindner, a Jew, escaped the Nazis by fleeing to France and then to the U.S., where he worked as an illustrator until his own work became successful in the 1960s. His favorite subject-woman-he saw as "bursting her corsets like a prehistoric animal cracking the egg and getting...
When she was three, the Kirklands moved to an apartment on the West Side of Manhattan. There, Jack decided that both girls should be prepared for a life in the theater. He took a special interest in Johnna, whose easygoing gregariousness matched his own. "I was my father's child," says Johnna, "and Gelsey was my mother's child." The younger daughter's obsessiveness taxed a mother's patience. First it was ice skating. Tummy sticking out and a frown on her large face, Gelsey learned to whirl around the Wollman rink in Central Park. "She had no fun doing...