Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week in Manhattan, to celebrate Picasso's 75th birthday, the Museum of Modern Art is opening the most comprehensive exhibition of Picasso's works ever collected under one roof. On view for a summer-long show that takes over three whole floors are 328 paintings, sculptures and drawings, selected from 95 collections. Included are 31 works owned by Picasso, which can be distinguished by the fact that the old man, with a peasant's shrewdness, never signs a painting until it is sold...
...nice flat and a telephone who are visited by introduction (cost of a night of love: 1,000 zlotys)." Of 310 "notorious prostitutes" interviewed, 106 were homeless. On cold and rainy nights they committed petty offenses "for the purpose of being arrested and obtaining at least a temporary roof over their heads, a warm nook and a spoonful of warm food...
...parents died, and she was an orphan in a strange bed in a strange city-Minneapolis. Mary and her brothers were condemned to razorstrop beatings in the downstairs lavatory by a hated uncle. Her Uncle Myers is now dead, but the narrative of life under his hateful roof (presents were taken away because they were "too good'') should serve as a reminder that a child's eye sees more than its guardians think...
...depression cycle," the emphasis, in stories was on his charge, not the rebuttal. Says Editor Tom Campbell of The Iron Age magazine: "Never has so much ink been spattered around about a 'downturn.' The general theme seems to be that if we are not headed for the roof we must drop to the cellar...
...reflection upon freshman spirit to note that the Union's history has been fairly dull since their occupancy, but only such flukes as last year's fire and the recent Jubilee hoax-candidates have drawn any large-scale undergraduate interest to the building. The fire last winter ruined its roof and caused damage to paintings inside...