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...tower that seems to change its shape with the movement of the sun. In the Four Seasons Restaurant-as hedonistic as a Caesar's court-light ripples up and down aluminum loop window shades, plays upon the slender rods of the stair rails. Johnson calls his 1957 Boisson-nas house "my first non-Miesian house." Gone is the "flowing space" that made one room run into another: "Here you go from room to room with doors that close." While the International Stylists tried to make everything as light as possible, Johnson put up solid rectangular piers inspired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Return to the Past | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

...time. Like everyone else in the Russian film, the present Myshkin, Yuri Yakovlev, acts at the top of his voice, generally while striding up and down in a pattern that would be understandable if he were carrying bagpipes. A good deal of the plot, including the murder of Nas-tasia Filipovna, has been left out, presumably for clarity. What is left never becomes very clear, and the impression is that the subtitles should not be blamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Imports, Jul. 25, 1960 | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

Wrote a legal historian: "What Shakespeare has been to literature, what Bacon nas been to philosophy, what the translators of the Authorized Version of the Bible have been to religion, Coke has been to the public and private law of England." What goes for English law goes for American, too. Catherine Drinker Bowen, who wrote about lawyer-patriots before (Yankee from Olympus, featuring Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and John Adams and the American Revolution), has produced an outstanding biography of Sir Edward Coke-it appeared briefly on the bestseller lists-in which greatness of personal achievement is framed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Jul. 8, 1957 | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

Rossini has led his team to seven victories and three losses so far in his second seaso nas head coach. The Lions' three defeats have been by a total of four points two of them coming in the Dixie Classic

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quintet Will Play Columbia Today In League Opener | 1/9/1952 | See Source »

Waving red railroad flares, the marches set fire-to leaf-piles and maple trees to add to the gaiety, and chant the procession onto "Nas-sau Street!" As the crowd, now 1000 strong, juggernauts hand-in-hand down the thoroughfare, the band leader cake-walks and a masquerade tiger polkas with random dates...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Princeton: Hard Work and Rah-Rah | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

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