Word: patios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NIGHT OF THE IGUANA. In John Huston's version of Tennessee Williams' play, several unlikely characters (portrayed with talent by Richard Burton and with competence by Deborah Kerr and Ava Gardner) turn up in the patio of a not-very-grand hotel in Mexico and talk, talk, talk about their peculiar problems. Often they talk well...
CENTRAL AMERICA AND PANAMA. Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama bring together a handsome exhibition of contemporary paintings and colorful folk art. For 25?, fairgoers can sip Central American coffee and listen to a Latin rhythm combo in an open-air patio...
...Royal Crown proved that diet drinks were no fad, the big bottlers pushed diet drinks of their own. Canada Dry President Roy W. Moore Jr. brought to market no fewer than eight diet drinks, from coffee flavor to ginger ale. Coca-Cola launched Tab, and Pepsi-Cola brought out Patio Diet Cola. Pepsi President Donald Kendall recently decided to take advantage of the $30 million spent advertising Pepsi this year, has begun to phase out Patio Diet in favor of a new drink called Diet-Pepsi, which is being promoted with the slogan "Enjoy Pepsi either way." All of them...
...sulphur springs, which are supposed to work wonders on an amazing range of problems from acne to sex. And against this black and blue landscape are some 25 dazzling white Saracen-style houses built by rich vacationers, plus a hotel called Les Sables Noirs. Built around a flower-filled patio, Les Sables Noirs has 25 rooms with baths or showers and a restaurant where lobster and caviar are served to candlelight and the soft Sicilian music of two local singers. Most of the waiters and maids are English or Swedish students, who work there in exchange for three months...
Though the patio has Gothic gargoyles and segmented arches typically Spanish, there is an overall order and clarity that reaches back to Greco-Roman architecture. Even the marble ornamentation bespeaks the Renaissance virtues of knowledge and diversity. Military trophies, helmets and maces share the stone with musical instruments; there is a sculptural bestiary of basilisks and griffins, scrolled foliage and fruits. Proudly, the young grandee could not resist a final fillip: carved in the marble is a continuous frieze in Latin which proclaims that he "erected this castle as the castle of his title...