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...hotel's great glory used to be its opulent indoor patio, a spacious central courtyard roofed over with glass and studded with palm trees and fountains that was the very symbol of la belle epoque. In the U.S., none rivaled the "Grand Central Court" of San Francisco's Palace Hotel, tiled in marble, lit by gas and roofed with crystal. But as modern cost-efficiency techniques have moved into hotelkeeping, much of the drama and elegance has moved out. Since space is the greatest architectural luxury of all, most new hotel lobbies are mean and cramped-areas designed...
Business was brisk there and at the store-front gallery he operated in Palm Beach. But at least one buyer became suspicious of Stein's paintings and his surprising ability to produce papers from Paris guaranteeing them on almost overnight notice. Manhattan Dealer Irving Yamet took his six Chagalls to the D.A.'s office...
Adventurousness was the word for the second half. Ohana's Neumes* (the asterisk is part of the title) for oboe and piano (1965) was alternately elegiac and expressionistic, contrasting long expressive oboe lines with fistand palm-technics for the piano. Hrisanide's A la Recherche de la Verticale (also 1965) utilized the noise-making as well as tone-producing capacities of the solo oboe, featuring effects such as clicking keys, blowing on a reed without oboe, and blowing through oboe without reed. The clicking-key effect got longer with each recurrence and, coupled with the title, apparently had some sort...
...sequined tunic and tights, braved a screening at Cannes of Blow-Up, in which Vanessa had taken a relatively small part simply because "I wanted to be directed by Antonioni." After the showing, Vanessa went home to London, but Antonioni stayed on for the happy ending: a Golden Palm applauding Blow-Up as the best film of the 25 shown at the festival...
...have candid interviews with ordinary people, Lederer uses unconventional techniques. In Thailand, for example, he and his student interpreters go to a "noodle stand" -- an after-work social club--where, Lederer will have his palm read (an obsession among Thais) to gain peoples' trust and "to show them that you are not trying to catch them." After his palm has been read, Lederer, with the help of his students, reads palms himself and starts asking questions. "When I ask a man what he would most like to win, he may say a lottery, so that he will have some money...