Word: parquet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used in well-known later paintings. Characteristic of Vermeer are the stiffly-painted garments and the delicate colors, lemon yellow and pearl grey, setting off the deep blue of Christ's robe. Dutch visitors, who like to look at works of art in absolute silence, complained that the parquet flooring in the room where Christ at Emmaus is hung was noisy. Carpets were immediately provided and religious silence prevailed...
...music hall styled after an interior view of a bunch of bananas, the white-haired pianist who once ruled his native Poland blinks out upon a parquet stage, bows to an effete-looking audience, sits down to play. The camera closes up, revealing a white, death-mask face, eyes shut against the world (and against the World's Fair interior around him), a sparse mustache scraggling over a pursed-up mouth that twitches with tic-like regularity...
...proletarian museum at Valencia. In Madrid, boys & girls in the peaked caps of the People's Army drill with rifles in Alba's park. A militiaman who insists on always wearing his peaked cap, even indoors, regularly uses Alba's electric waxer to keep the parquet floors of his Madrid palace gleaming. Communist guides lead groups of peasants and proletarians about in the stately halls, lecturing as in the palaces at Leningrad and Moscow. Alba is a blood kinsman of Winston Churchill, discharges the duties of an ambassador in London, where both he and onetime King Alfonso...
Each maid is given anywhere from twelve to sixteen boys. No exceptions are made as to whether you work in the Houses where all modern improvements prevail, or whether you are in the old dorms in the Yard, where there is no tile or parquet floors to take care...
...lower East Side two barefaced, rectangular apartments rear their bricks twelve stories into the air. Jointly christened Knickerbocker Village, they cover four whole city blocks. Between the two units is a concrete playground, and within each will be a garden. Each of the 1,593 apartments has wooden parquet floors, electric refrigeration, tiled bathrooms, outside windows. The elevators are self-operating. Rentals range from $22.50 for 2½ rooms on the ground floor to $87.50 for a 5½-room penthouse. Average is $12.50 a room. Knickerbocker Village will cost about $9,000,000, and with the exception of Rockefeller Center...