Word: pies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half-size plaster models of two pieces of sculpture for the city's new detention home for juveniles. Photos of Raemisch's models showed a group of round-faced children gathered around a round-faced mother. Objected one member of the commission: the figures look "pie-faced." Agreed Sculptor Giuseppe Donate: the faces of the children look as if they had "retarded minds." Said Donato: "We have a responsibility to the public to see that they get a first-rate piece of art." The commission asked for photographs of full-size models before making its final decision...
...acre Rockefeller Center (cost: $125 million) and Pittsburgh's 59-acre Golden Triangle (upwards of $50 million). Said Owings : "Esthetically, it is as exciting as Venice. We can give to this city of ours something that people travel to Europe to see. This is not a pie-in-the-sky proposal...
...Editor Ottavio Pastore, 66, who started out as editor of the paper when it was founded in 1924 and now also holds a seat in the Italian Senate, and Amerigo Terenzi, 45, chief executive officer, promotion and business manager, whose office is filled with the same circulation pie charts and graphs that adorn the walls of any other publisher. Present devotion to the party rather than past political history is a first requisite for a job, e.g., Milan Editor Davide Lajolo was a topflight Fascist newsman who fought on the side of Mussolini's Blackshirts in Spain before returning...
Themselves dealing with a patchwork of old legends, Latouche and Moross have yet contrived something attractively individual. The Golden Apple is much less satire meant to strike home than a front-porch-and-parlor version of Homer. The local Venus wins the golden apple in a pie-baking contest. The face that launched a thousand ships now sets perhaps a thousand tongues awagging. Scylla and Charybdis are a slick pair of brokers. The famed vanished song the sirens sang turns out to have...
...prospered in the years following the war. But sobering statistics show that even in good times the average farmer earns less than a dollar an hour, including the food he grows for his family. Even so, farmers are concerned not so much with increasing their slice of the economic pie as insuring that they get it every year...