Word: potemkine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pocket a little wedding-cake bride and groom and placed the pair on top. "Twittering Aviary." Because of this obsession with façade effects, Yamasaki has been denounced and defended with increasing vigor. If placed all together, say his critics, his buildings would make a kind of Potemkin village where heaven knows what might be going on behind the lovely surface. What the buildings mainly lack for these men is a sense of force. By splitting the McGregor building down the middle with the glass gallery, says Yale's Art History Professor Vincent Scully Jr., Yamasaki has produced...
Gone are the days of Potemkin when crowds swirled down the Odessa steps in a millrace of fluidity. Like Rembrandt, Eisenstein ended his career in a vein of classicism, but unlike Rembrandt, he worked in a medium that does not prosper when it gives up movement for stasis and symmetry--even when that symmetry ascends to such sublime heights as Ivan the Terrible, Part...
...clerical error, the CRIMSON advertised Potemkin, the first film in the M.I.T. Russian Film Festival, for Friday, Oct. 27 instead of Saturday, Oct. 23. All films in the series are on Saturday evenings. We regret the Inconvenience caused to patrons who went to M.I.T. on Friday because of our error...
...badge of acceptability. But whatever the country and whomever it profits, a wheel is a wheel is a wheel. Production quotas must be met. Fear and pride make the Red executive an adept at the fine but dangerous art of cooking the books; thus there is more Potemkin fakery than socialist realism in Soviet statistics...
...bald, round-bellied Transylvanian who obviously shuns his own exercises. Entrepreneur Szekely is a sometime archaeologist, philosopher, biochemist and author (he claims 69 books). By his own admission, he speaks 14½ languages, the 50% lingo being English. His cosmetics, says he grandly, are drawn from history, e.g., General Potemkin's letters taught him the oils used by Catherine the Great (Siberian fir needles, hay, geranium and lilac), and Anne Marie's exercises are supposedly based on a calisthenics drill devised by Leonardo da Vinci. "It is not a lesser masterpiece than his Mona Lisa...