Word: motifs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow's Metro, each station has an architectural motif. The murals in the new station at the Central Park of Culture and Rest are devoted to "Leisure for the Working Classes." On a wall are the words of the 119th article of the Stalin Constitution: "Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to rest and leisure." Wall relief sculpture depicts musicians, sportsmen and dancers. At another station, the motif is "Victory of the Soviet People over Fascism"; the mosaics show pilots, soldiers & sailors...
...taken great pains to integrate the bridge with Harvard. It proposed to the Legislature that it be dedicated to Charles W. Eliot, 1853, president of the University between 1869 and 1909, and the Commission had its architects stress the Harvard motif throughout the design. The facing of the bridge will be done in expensive fancy brickwork and granite in imitation of the Houses; the four gates to the MDC garages under the abutments will be of wrought iron copied from the gates to the Yard; and on the face of each main pier will appear gothic capital...
...idea captured, frail as it was, Loewy went back to sleep until a Loewy-designed alarm clock tinkled at 7 a.m., turning him out into a world filled with the products of his night & day dreaming. In his black, beige and bronze bathroom, with its motif of Nubian slaves, he plugged in his Loewy-designed Schick electric razor, used a toothbrush and tube of toothpaste he had modeled for Pepsodent, tore off the wrapper he had designed for Lux soap. Even the expensively tailored grey suit he put on was his own snugly fitting creation. Its special feature: inch...
...effort to brighten up austerity-ridden Britain, the Southern Region of the state-owned railway system devised a pub-on-wheels (bar car) which was supposed to be very quaint. The outside of the car features leaded windows, cream panels, false brickwork and fake timbers, and the motif of brummagem antiquity is carried on inside. One of the pubs-on-wheels was in service last week on the Atlantic Coast Express and seven more were being readied. They will have names like "The Bull," "The Dolphin," "The Green Man," "The White Horse...
...plot, which revolves around the really worn-out pregnancy motif and the First Sergeant's schemes to get transferred overseas, is fortunately incidental. The main humor is in the minor incidents, such as the colonel's inspection of the orderly room, and the men's desperate stampede to get under cover at 5:15 to avoid having to salute as the flag is lowered...