Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan agreed on by the ten called for a vast "machine for working." The shell would consist of two office skyscrapers, 45 and 30 stories high, and two flat meeting halls, widely spaced in a six-block park. Said Wallace Harrison severely: "The world hopes for a symbol of peace; we have given them a workshop for peace...
...done their best. Surrealist Max Ernst contributed a waxy "translation" of Utah's Bryce Canyon. Jane Berlandina's abstractions of the Sierra peaks were appropriately lonely and cool, inappropriately pretty. David Fredenthal had taken a pack trip into the gouged, crumpled high country of Glacier National Park. Dong Kingman had made Grand Teton Mountain burst like a cloud-breathing dragon out of the plain, but the mile-deep solidity of its pine-covered ribs had escaped...
...Splashiest purse-denter: the musical Park Avenue...
...cocky, unsophisticated provincial with a talent for writing tunes and a misguided mania for hyper-sophisticated lyrics (Psychopathology, psychopathology, you're the girl for me, he yammers abstractedly, trying it on for the polysyllables). He is sure that all a songwriter has to do to panic Park Avenue nightclubbers is to write lyrics that insult them enough. But when the Big Chance comes, the customers don't see it his way and Eddie and his good friends Miss Edwards, Constance Moore and Gil Lamb are suddenly at liberty...
...Park Avenue princess (Martha Vickers), fond of a songwriting pauper (Robert Hutton), naturally pretends to be a girl of the people. Just as naturally, he first mistakes her for a schizophrenic kleptomaniac, next mistakes her be-limousined father for a sugar daddy. As anyone could predict, Boy eventually becomes so successful that at picture's end he can stand the shock of learning who Girl really is. Otto Kruger supplies his touch of suavity, Jack Carson his considerable comic talent, and Janis Paige her banjo eyes and pretty curves-but none of these attractions can save the tired...