Word: museumful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suffer from a bad case of hiccups, head over to the Brattle this week. Yes, gentle folk, it's Horror Time at your local art theatre. Horrors of the Black Museum, the first of the spine-tinglers, will be followed Wednesday by Blood of the Vampire. For the weekend ghoul, there's Horror of Dracula...
...Horrors of the Black Museum is in full swing. And from all the prop rooms of all the studios comes the full stock of exotic murder weapons. First a beautiful young woman with blue eyes and decolletage receives a pair of binoculars as an anonymous gift. Her roommate (brown eyes and decolletage) reports the murder promptly...
...icepick murder, an electrocution, and in the finale, two knifings. As the audience learns early in the show and suspects even earlier, the man responsible for all this mayhem is a crime reporter and biographer who, with an admirable collector's instinct, is creating his own Black Museum to surpass that of Scotland Yard...
...maintains, has become a dead-end street. "Grownup children play with curves and tensions they do not control," he snorts. "It smells of Hollywood. The human being becomes forgotten." His office now has projects for a new cultural center for Wolfsburg, Germany (home of the Volkswagen works), a museum in Denmark, a semicircular apartment house in Bremen and a new opera house for Essen. Says U.S. Architect Eero Saarinen, himself the son of a famed Finnish architect: "In the postwar decade, Aalto seemed headed away from the mainstream of architecture-until now. The development of the last few years...
...this big exhibit, composed of scale models, artists' renderings and oversized photographs, the Museum of Fine Arts displays the recent work of thirteen of the major modern architects. The show features the work of architecture's "big three"--the late Frank Lloyd Wright, the vigorous and ceaselessly inventive Le Corbusier and the contemplative, conservative Dutchman, Mies Van Der Rohe...