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...pajamas is Kirk Douglas, and the suburban woman more or less next door is Kim Novak. He meets her in a supermarket, and his love, at first sight, is framed against a pyramid of oranges. She is fresh and not too seedy, but at home no one is squeezing her. She even leaves her blouse open to attract her husband when he returns from work, but the husband's reaction is: "Why don't you get dressed?" Any man who says that to Kim Novak isn't even a slob...
...pyramid-topped oratory, the church and its curvilinear chapel (which Corbusier calls "the rock" and the monks, despite his protests, call "the ear"), there are no statues. "There will be no distraction from images," Corbu told the monks. "If you want to be good fellows and show some friendship for your poor devil of an architect, you can do it by formally refusing every gift of stained glass, or images, or statues, which kill everything...
...moment in architecture was when "the walls parted and the column became." But he does not believe that columns need look like classic colonnades-all form and no function except to support the roof. He has planned one towering office structure that looks like giant Tinker Toys studded with pyramid-shaped joints that are used as service areas. "I like my buildings to have knuckles," he explains. "Joints are the beginning of ornament." He has also used daring devices in more down-to-earth buildings. His Yale Art Gallery, for example, uses exposed reinforced concrete tetrahedrons to span the ceilings...
What designers had up their big sleeves was a silhouette that defied a name. Some dubbed it the "Easy Look," others the "Airlift Look," still others the "Dragonfly Look." It accented huge, winglike sleeves and a wandering waistline. Designer Ceil Chapman's funnel-sleeved line highlighted the "pyramid waist," high in front and low in back. Designers Norman Norell and James Galanos achieved the long-torso effect by dropping the waistline well down to the hip. Designers expect that the wandering waistline will make women's figures look slimmer. Manufacturers expect that it will fatten retail-sales figures...
...dignitaries, including the American and British charges d'affaires. President Gamal Nasser yanked the switch that exploded ten tons of dynamite in the river cliff. At last, work had begun on the billion-dollar Aswan High Dam, which when built will be a mightier achievement than the proudest pyramid of the Pharaohs. It will increase Egypt's arable land by one-third, reclaiming 1,000,000 acres of desert and giving another 700,000 acres the capability of producing several crops a year instead of only...