Word: midtown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today, at 38, Koerner has abandoned symbolism for a fanatically objective approach to everyday subjects. His new paintings, on view at Manhattan's Midtown Galleries this week, struck at least one critic as coming "perilously close to academicism." But Paul Cézanne, who was no academician, would have approved Koerner's Mother and Child (opposite) for its delicate interplay of geometric planes. The master might even have envied its draftsmanship. The plain young mother and her beefy, carrot-topped boy are treated as coolly as a still life, yet his energy and her weariness are perfectly conveyed...
Philadelphia. Aiming point: City Hall. All of the midtown and South Philadelphia areas, the Navy Yard, Germantown, Upper Darby and Camden destroyed; Chestnut Hill, Bryn Mawr, Chester severely damaged...
...everything begins to happen at once. A dashing young soap millionaire (Peter Lawford) dashes after her, demanding her billboard at several times the rent and her body at any price short of matrimony. Before Gladys is through, she has parlayed her single billboard into six strategically located billboards in midtown Manhattan...
...back seat. To conform to zoning restrictions, most of the buildings rise in a series of recessed blocks, like Babylonian ziggurats and great wedding cakes. A few, like the U.N.'s stone and glass sandwich and Lever House's glass slab, have broken the pattern. But in midtown Manhattan, the wedding cake leads the field...
...long time; at the last count, only a fraction of 1% of the available office space was unoccupied. But people who remember Frank Lloyd Wright's prophecy that cities will die and grass grow in the streets are worried about the new office buildings choking the midtown area. Grass may never grow on the streets, but it may some day grow on the roofs of the cars caught in the daily 5 o'clock traffic...