Word: rues
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Keep Out. Le Corbusier's whitewashed studio at 35 Rue de Sévres, which he has occupied for almost 40 years, had become a magnet for apprentice architects from Japan, England, the U.S., South America. It still is, for no week passes without its qouta of admiring visitors. A long, dusty corridor leads them up a winding staircase to an odd wooden door. They pause in a tiny waiting room, and finally a small gate with a ferocious KEEP OUT sign opens. Past the gate is the cramped office of the master- a lonely, childless widower whose office...
Skyline, by Gene Fowler. A newsman's memories of the '20s, when Broadway was the Rue Regret...
...daughter Marianne, art student at the Sorbonne, lives at Reid Hall. She writes: "Ever since TIME printed that another art student, Jacqueline Bouvier, once too made her home at Reid Hall, this is what 4 Rue de Chevreuse looks like...
...burst in upon him to see the splendid athlete holding his groin, moaning like a busted pipe organ, and refusing to come out for another round." To Fowler's generation of writers, New York was always the Big Town, a drink was spiritus frumenti, and Broadway was the Rue Regret. Reading Skyline with or without spiritus frumenti, one question is bound to arise: Where are the monkey glands of yesteryear...
...Paris he began the climb that is familiar to so many painters. There was the dreary little hotel on the Rue Dauphine "where you cooked under a sign that said 'cooking prohibited.' " In 1952 he had his first Paris one-man show, and on its second day, a kindly bald-headed man dropped in and stayed for 20 minutes. The man was Pablo Picasso; his comment: "Well done." Though Downing still works each afternoon in a U.S. law office as a sort of office boy, his afterhours reputation has mounted steadily...