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...cyanotypes that this greater skill and manipulation has its greatest success. Basically, a cyanotype is a blueprint, and in the early twentieth century they had only a novelty value. The exhibit shows two 1905 cutesy postcards and a print of the Pavillion of the French Colonies at the Paris Exhibition of that year. The anonymous photographer uses the blue color only for exotic value, and pays no attention to the fact that he is printing white on blue rather than the more usual blue on white. But, by our own time, photographers have turned this novelty into expressionistic form. Andrea...
...gotten a lot colder during the night and the Inauguration took place beneath a bleak, grey sky. A west to northwest wind, gusting up to 30 miles per hour, ripped across the grandstands and Presidential Pavillion at the Fast Portico of the Capitol. "This is just like a football game said a man with a blanket as he showed his passes to a policeman...
...dining rooms, stairways, and doorways helped the now large New York restaurant to maintain some of its intimacy even after it was bought out by Restaurant Associates. Inc. Restaurant Associates operates perhaps the world's most exclusive chain of restaurants, including Forum of the XII Caesars, Four Seasons, Le Pavillion, La Brasserie and The Ground Floor in New York. Around Boston their holdings cater to a different clientele: plastic salamied Zum Zums and fashionably filthy Hungry Charleys...
...Buckminster Fuller, the whiz engineer and architect who plans to change the world. His geodesic dome is the U.S. pavillion at Expo 67. Fuller was one of those seniors who had enlisted before Commencement in the Navy, where he served until 1919. One classmate described Fuller's mind as an "intellectual carnival." Fuller's own account of his life is less pedantic; "Born crosseyed. Abnormally farsighted. Corrected at four. Until then saw only large patterrns. Emphasis persisted after correction. Started young documenting against world developments, formalized as Chronofile 1917. Chronofile disclosed Newton's era world at rest supersded by Einstein...
...areas, of $50 for first prize, $25 for second, and $15 for third. Finally, the House can graphically symbolize--and advertise--the Arts Festival with its "Space Frame," a geometric structure in the Towers' Courtyard made of sticks and strings and reminiscent of a World's Fair pavillion...