Word: patina
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Modern sculpture itself made it in evitable. Alexander Calder's vivid mo biles were meant to jiggle and gyrate under the leaves, George Rickey's feathery kinetics to stir in the breeze. To be sure, bronze and marble for centuries have gained in luster and patina from exposure to the weather, but a whole new range of materials, notably stain less steel and plastics, practically demand the reflective brilliance of sun shine. "Aluminum shines wonderfully against the greens of summer and the greys of winter," observes New York Collector Robert Scull...
...Carmel Snow, named Bazaar's editor in 1932, who gave the magazine its present patina and slickness. In 1958, she was succeeded by her niece, Nancy White. Under her editorship the magazine has become less literary and more topical. While it once ran such titans as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka and Thomas Hardy, it now favors such social commentators and fashionable authors as Britain's Kenneth Tynan and France's Françoise Sagan. Nancy White and her editors take pride in the fact that Bazaar was the first to play up bikinis (on Suzy Parker), women...
Unabashedly chauvinistic, the peoples of Eastern Europe have always been bitterly quarrelsome. During more than 20 years in power, their Communist leaders have tried to make much of so cialist unity, but the effort created only a patina beneath which the old animosities still raged. Last week the patina visibly cracked. When the representatives of the Warsaw Pact countries met, they argued vociferously and unproductively. The fiasco proved with new force what has been clear for a long time: the Warsaw Pact, somewhat like its NATO equivalent, is now an artifact rather than a fact...
...Johnson suffers, too, from a kind of generational gap that yawns wider every time Bobby Kennedy addresses a crowd. It is not simply a matter of age. As a kind of latter-day Andrew Jackson in an era that looks for a more patrician patina on its politicians, he strikes many as plain corny or simply crude. Last week, for example, while en route to Manila, the wife of an allied Prime Minister had just confided to her seat mate that she preferred bacon even to caviar when the President leaned over, speared one of her two rashers and devoured...
Mancha's surprise success confounds even its most fanatical fans. At least some of that success, in an era of Dollys and Mames, comes from the deliberate absence of panache and patina. But most of the musical's appeal is purely emotional. The artless show matches the naive Quixote, a man who is only truly alive when he dreams; it extols virtues such as honesty and courage with a stern innocence that makes people believe in them. There are only 19 actors in the musical and no chorus line, but there is a persistent illusion of greatness...