Word: portico
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...chorus, a kind of corps de ballet of 14, chants in Greek and uses body English to underscore, but not undercut, the action. In their pleated rust-brown gowns with cowled headdress, the women often resemble the caryatids on the portico of the Acropolis' Erechtheum. The modern Greek rendering of the play has a venomous and vibrant intimacy that the English translation, transmitted at the City Center on transistor earphones, fails to reflect. In a cast that achieves a triumph of ensemble playing, Clytemnestra is coolly reptilian, and Aegisthus is a strutting upstart of self-aggrandizement who yet meets...
...portico (see color), which was designed later by the master Mateo, is part of the current exhibition, but other works in the show range from paintings to illuminated manuscripts, from ivories and capitals to frescoes from Catalonia, mosaics from Italy, enamels from Belgium, wood carvings from Norway. "The difficulty." wrote one Spanish critic, "is to know where to stop and look." In one display was a polished bronze reliquary containing a portrait of the Emperor Barbarossa. In another was a praying Madonna done in mosaics by an artist who might have received his training in Byzantium. There was a robe...
...rise overlooking Fort Worth. In designing its facade, Manhattan Architect Philip Johnson (TIME, Sept. 5) to a large degree abandoned the austere international style that has dominated modern architecture, instead dipped far into the past for inspiration. The five archways and the tapered columns on the front portico go back to the Greek stoas and the Renaissance loggias that looked down upon Mediterranean plazas. The Great Hall is severe but rich, and Johnson's elegance manages to shelter whooping cowpunchers and bucking broncos without dampening their bronze spirits. The Amon Carter Museum of Western Art is meant to display...
Late that same afternoon, both couples drove to the White House, where Jack Kennedy waited for them on the snow-swept north portico. Coffee in the Red Room with Jacqueline Kennedy, Vice President and Mrs. Johnson, Air Force Secretary Eugene Zuckert and Kansas Representative J. Floyd Breeding was a time of relaxed small talk. The President advised the two officers to head south for a vacation. "You had lipstick all over you," he told McKone, remembering the captain's airport reception. But nothing could fluster the man who had stood up to seven months of solitary confinement...
...glare, the wide avenues and the Capitol plaza bristled with tens of thousands of onlookers in bright stocking caps, fur coats and warm blankets as protection against the 20° temperature. The big inaugural platform on the steps of the Capitol's east portico was studded with eight white Corinthian columns matching those of the Capitol itself. U.S. flags whipped in the stiff wind above the great marble office buildings and the Library of Congress...