Word: pies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Painter (Litfle Movies), an extremely funny 15-minute film, may be taken as a solemn leg-pull of the recent vogue for dribble-and-splotch painters, those athletic canvas-coverers whose style owes less to Van Gogh's brush technique than to Stan Laurel's custard pie stance. Or it may be taken as an explicit set of instructions for getting rich...
...engines were not to be used, and contestants would solemnly swear to take aboard no supplies during the crossing. The club, somewhat surprisingly, approved. Soon there were 150 inquiries from adventurous yachtsmen as far away as California, and hungry would-be sponsors clamored for a slice of the publicity pie. RCA offered radios, Autolite supplied batteries, and Plymouth Gin solicitously insisted on stocking each boat with a "survival kit"-one part gin, one part vermouth, and a guide to martini mixing...
...well as the U.S. presidency. The Nixon biography is the work of Bela Kornitzer, a Hungarian refugee who, according to the dust jacket, learned English by going to American movies. This is undoubtedly true. The book includes a replica of Mother Hannah Nixon's handwritten recipe for cherry pie, as well as the information that young Dick won one of his first elections (president of the student body at Whittier College) by campaigning for dances, which had been banned at the Quaker-founded school. The Kornitzer book seems to be about an entirely different man from William Costello...
Chess is the sort of game that mathematicians consider their own particular pumpkin pie. Many are the learned cybernetics treatises arguing that the world's best chess player may one day be a computing machine instead of a human (indeed, International Business Machines is even now perfecting a chess-playing computer). But in Moscow last week, there seemed dramatic evidence that chess is at least as much psychological as logical-and that the machine is unlikely to triumph over the mind...
...summer in the heart of Chicago's downtown area, north of the Loop. Architect Bertrand Goldberg, 46, a onetime student of Mies van der Rohe. devotes the first 18 floors of his pair of circular towers to a spiral ramp for automobiles, and the top 40 stories to pie-shaped apartments, each with its own balcony. Called Marina City, the project will fill a 3.1-acre plot, now occupied by a railroad siding bordering on the Chicago River hard by the famed Wrigley Building, will include drydock storage space for 700 boats, a theater, a ten-story office building...