Word: metropolis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the actual structure began going up, its exterior proved too much for many critics as well, was dubbed "the snail," an "indigestible hot cross bun," a "wash ing machine." Robert Moses, New York City Parks Commissioner and Metropoli tan Museum ex officio trustee, decided that it looked like "an inverted oatmeal dish." Wright fired back: "It's going to make the Metropolitan Museum look like a Protestant barn." Twenty-one artists signed a round-robin protest charging that Wright's scheme for hanging would throw their canvases askew and the sloping ramp (3%) would provide no level...
...talent gravitates to a few favorite spots in Florida and Las Vegas. So where does the poor boniface put his coin these days? The only blue chips, according to Variety, are the little intimate places and a couple of hotel and club plusheries in each of the really hub metropoli...
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