Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Samaras traces back his fascination with rooms to youthful visits to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, where he used to stand entranced in the period rooms. "There was no reference to today," he recalls. "You were overwhelmed, even seduced, into a past age." His mirror rooms fulfill a similar function today by allowing the viewer to experience weightlessness and the expanding universe of tomorrow. Red Grooms traces back the genesis of his Chicago to his boyhood efforts in Nashville to duplicate the Ringling Bros. Circus in his own backyard and to his student days in Italy, where he toured with...
...Basse, which brought $48,000. Highest bid was $300,000 for Picasso's oval-shaped 1912 cubist painting La Pointe de la Cite. Second most expensive picture was Georges Braque's Homage à J. S. Bach from the same period, which was bought for $276,000 by Manhattan Dealer Sidney Janis, who last January gave his first ($2,000,000) art collection to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, and now may be starting all over again...
...Some 2,000 survive his critical eye during the first three-year period. Further tests reduce the number, until only 20 to 30 remain by the end of the sixth year. Those select bushes are then sent to 24 countries, from the U.S. to Finland, from Kenya to Japan, for exposure to various climates. In the end, perhaps one plant out of the original 100,000 will make the grade. The new rose will be notable for its color, the firmness of its silken petals or its longevity. His Baccara was the first rose to last for a week after...
After his graduation from Cambridge with first class honors in English, he taught for a few years at Stowe, in those days an up-and-coming public school. His learning project during the period was gentlemanly idling. With enormous industry and almost no money, he taught himself to hunt, shoot, fish, and handle falcons. He mocked this hunger for accomplishment in a book, written between hunt-club meets, called Burke's Steerage, or the Amateur Gentleman's Introduction to Noble Sports and Pastimes. White was not very good at falconry (goshawks and merlins kept getting away...
...frequent crowd scenes, when the groupings suggest at once the linear composition of classical art, and the luxury of a Cinemascope biblical epic. This is due in good part to Olga Liepmann's costumes, which make up in variety and color whatever they may lack in real period style. But in the intimate scenes, the static principle is a good deal less successful. The compositions satisfy when first revealed, but one soon begins to long for motion and depth, for a visual variety to match the energy of Shaw's verbal and intellectual movement. It may be that the actors...