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Word: screens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with tall, reinforced concrete columns, visible girders and horizontal ribbons, sheathed all of them in strips of the gleaming white Pentelic marble used in the Parthenon. This design forms a 20-ft. cantilever which serves as a sunbreak, reminiscent of the massive Greek porticos. The first floor has a screen of sky-blue ceramic tile; the upper two stories have a curtain wall of grey glass spandrels hung from the roof girders. For added elegance, the interior court will be ringed with columns of Pentelic marble, the base of the building with dark grey Santa Marina marble. Amid the dignity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Architecture for Athena | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...free four convicted kidnapers if the Government refused to turn over all FBI reports bearing on the case; one Georgia court had already dismissed an income-tax case because the Justice Department declined "to produce unauthenticated summaries of interviews with witnesses." Under the Administration bill, trial judges would first screen the files for their relevancy before making them available to the defense. The Senate subcommittee, making clear that its haste stemmed from a "grave emergency in law enforcement," approved the bill-in a closed-door session of precisely three minutes. ¶ In a 5-to-3 decision, the U.S. Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: After the Swerve | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

Married. Lee J. Cobb, 45, star of screen (On the Waterfront) and stage (Death of a Salesman) ; and Mary Hirsch, 27, brunette elementary schoolteacher; both for the second time; in Santa Monica, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 8, 1957 | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

Divorced. Barry Sullivan, 44, longtime actor of stage (The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Too Late the Phalarope), screen (The Bad and the Beautiful); by Marie Brown Sullivan, 45; after 20 years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 8, 1957 | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

Around the World in 80 Days. The most spectacular travelogue ever seen on the screen (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jul. 8, 1957 | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

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