Word: mural
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tropism for cops and his tendency to rant at strangers. Even at the end, when Shillitoe is strapped to the operating table while the lobotomist's needle probes to discover whether truth is beauty, his plight is reminiscent of Jimson clinging to his wall and painting his soaring mural while the walls threaten to fall down about...
...gaudiness nothing quite compares with Dallas' Cabana motel, owned by the improbable combination of Doris Day and the Teamsters Union. Five fountains jet water 50 ft. into the air under red, yellow and blue lights. A life-sized lobby mural of naked Romans embroiled in orgy entices-or repels-the traveler. A Texan can stand tall on the lobby balcony, see 37 images of himself in gold-tinted mirrors. In his room he finds huge mirrors above his bed or covering an entire wall. Yet Dallas also has a good symphony orchestra that is pressing Houston...
...theater, located at 993 Massachusetts Avenue, will be "the most up-to-date in New England," according to Stephen G. Minasian, treasurer of Esquire Theaters of America, which owns both the Esquire and the Kenmore theaters. A sculptured mural by Henri Lyon will adorn the facade...
...threw furniture into the swimming pool and made off with the portrait of Hilton that hangs in every Hilton lobby. At the New York opening, some wayward members of the press took their whisky by the bottle instead of the drink, someone painted a swastika on a Dong Kingman mural and the overzealous door guards tried to keep out Mayor Wagner. In Rotterdam all the lights went out while most of the guests were dressing for the party...
...hammer and chisel, realizing, though very young, excellent works. He made his first house when he was seventeen and a half without ever having studied architecture. This house subjected to the influence of that time and of his teacher L'Eplattenier, gave an opening to architectural decorations: "sgraffiti," mural painting, furniture, wrought iron, embossing, etc.... During the following years this school undertook building works (decorative, of course, since it was the fashion at that time): metal, stone, mosaic, stained-glass window (concert-room, church, fragment of a public edifice, etc...) One day everything collapsed before the rivalry and the hatred...