Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stuck's million-mark palazzo, begun in 1896, fell into decay after his death in 1927, but an aging daughter lived amid the ruins until 1961. Opened last month as a Jugendstil museum, the Stuck-Villa pays its way by housing four art galleries in its annex, a modern-art museum upstairs, a restaurant in the wine cellar...
Cache in the Shaft. Most original ol the art-nouveau architects was Spain's Antoni Gaudi, but recognition was slow in coming. Two decades ago, Art Historian Nikolaus Pevsner, in his Pioneers of Modern Design, relegated Gaudi to two footnotes in the appendix. Eight years later, Pevsner recanted, saying, "He is the only genius produced by art-nouveau." Gaudi, who urged that "we must not imitate or reproduce Gothic but continue it," based his studies on Catalan architecture and plant forms in nature. The results, scholars now recognize, intuitively anticipated many of today's shell structures, including...
Died. Roy E. Tomlinson, 90, former president (1917-29, 1932-45) and chairman (1929-55) of the National Biscuit Co., who raised a small biscuit-maker to a modern corporate giant (1967 sales: $764 million) that makes everything from crackers to candies, cookies to ice cream cones, and sells them throughout the world; in Glen Ridge...
Pink Delights. As a result of an ambitious road-building program and a steadily expanding network of airfields, the archaeological digs of Yucatan, the baroque colonial Spanish cities and the splendid beaches are now only a few hours' drive or flight apart. Archaeological buffs, for instance, land in modern turboprops on the recently completed crushed-limestone runway beside the ruined temples of Chichen Itza. And in Mexico City (called simply Mexico by most Mexicans), workers labor round the clock, topping off new big-city hotels and readying the Olympic facilities...
...glass, allowing the squares of the world to see in as easily as the riders of the cube can see out. But then, explains the car's designer, a Vietnamese Parisian named Quasar (after the far-out starlike bodies) Khanh (TIME, Oct. 27), "Transparency is part of the modern world...