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Scheduled to be ready in 1964, the stadium will seat 46,000 in plush bucket-type seats for baseball, 52,000 for football, and upwards of 65,000 for fights and conventions. The dome will be 202 ft. high (well clear of the most towering fly), and its seven tiers will be served by escalators. There will be facilities for 25,000 cars...
...forms. His skill is impressive, but even more so is the splendid chaos of his ideas, a mixture of corn and stabbing truth that often is close to surrealism. He has done a beautiful silver sculpture of an old lady's hand, which he placed in a fading plush box and gave the title Tradition. There is a dumpy dwarf called Uncle Sam, and an extraordinarily graceful Man with a Kite. Durchanek has also done a robust George Washington, who gazes in bewilderment at a large falcon chained to his wrist. This, he explains, is the way Washington might...
...plush, colonnaded picture gallery, Lord Pengo (Charles Boyer) wheedles, cajoles, amuses, and stimulates a cultural lust for owning Giorgiones and Masaccios in the blank-walled minds of crotchety, sulky and pinchpenny plutocrats. But, as someone says, for him selling is "a kind of disembodied activity, like praying," and disembodiment is the felt mood of the evening. Behrman dutifully tries to fire Pengo and Co. with emotions. Pengo rages at his petulant and priggishly high-minded son (Brian Bedford). He feels pity for a twitchily neurotic moneybag (Ruth White), for his loyal secretary (Agnes Moorehead), and for a lonely press-maligned...
...atmosphere pervading the plush offices in the Payne Whitney gymnasium, however, was one of hurried excitement. Secretaries and student aides were working overtime, preparing news releases and official notices. Sports writers from the local papers talked among themselves at they waited for a telephone interview with Crimson football coach John Yovicson...
Yamasaki has designed everything from an office building, a plush suburban home, and a downtown mall to a freeway. He has done the famous Reynolds Metals Building near Detroit, several house of worship, the U.S. consulate in Kobe, Japan, an airport in Saudi Arabia and the U.S. pavilion for the 1959 World Agriculture Fair in India...