Word: mosaics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edifice Complex. The startling ten-story mosaic pattern is the latest work of Architect-Muralist Juan O'Gorman, a shy, hard-working artist of 49, who likes to keep trying for new ideas in expression...
...probably the fanciest private ship afloat. Called the Christina (after his wife), Onassis' floating palace is a 1,445-ton, 303-ft. Canadian destroyer escort (Stormont) rebuilt into a yacht at an estimated cost of $2,500,000. In the afterdeck is a marble swimming pool, with a mosaic floor that can be raised for dancing. In the lounge is a huge fireplace of ornamental lapis lazuli, while in the cozy barroom, decorated as an old sailor's haunt, cocktail sippers can sit in whaleskin chairs at a glass-topped bar enclosing a tiny fleet of ancient...
...That prisoners tell all they know because "the average prisoner has nothing of importance to tell." Actually, said Shepherd, vital intelligence comes from "the painstaking creation of a related mosaic of fact created out of fragments of seemingly unimportant information gleaned from the patient questioning of thousands of captives." In effect, any information can help the enemy...
Both artists breathe new life into mediums which have long suffered from lack of fresh talent. Louisa Jenkins studied Byzantine masterpieces of mosaic art in northern
Italy, then found new techniques of her own. Besides the traditional Italian mosaic glass, she uses lava rock, iridescent furnace slag, crystal, quartz, mica and pyrites to produce extraordinarily various effects. Her mosaic above shows the moment when Christ met his mother on the Way of the Cross. As Artist Jenkins puts it, the "Cross becomes a sword of Truth between them. In the look between them, Mary realizes that He must go before...