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...kind of picture that forms at the mention of London or New York or Paris. On the opposite page are some postwar Moscow pictures. Like postcard shots anywhere, they put the best face on the city: behind the big buildings are acres of slums. The girder-skeleton (top left) is for a 26-story office building on Smolensky Square, not very imposing in Manhattan but a colossus in Europe. The splendid subway station is on the newly opened Great Circle link (TIME, Nov. 14). Most of the shiny autos, which are on their way to a soccer game...
...first Italian abstractionists; others, like his "The Horseman is Here Again" and "Christ in a Gas Mask," have much of the quality of Durer's woodcuts. Later watercolors, however, are pure reflections of his own creativeness. These paintings, dating from 1946 to the present, repeatedly picture a twisted, angular, skeleton-like creature whom Grosz calls "the Gray Man." Other recurring symbols are an artist's canvas with a hole torn in its center, and a rainbow-colored flag torn from its staff. The series of water-colors, with its fantastic, degraded monsters and burning luminosity of color, is like...
...pageauation for "314" as drawn up by Feeney and the beard was an a skeleton pageanation to the two books nounced last night. And expanded House Section, treating the activities within each House individually, is the vehicle for recording and evaluating the College year for Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors. Also, an enlarged section dealing with undergraduate activities and organizations is designed to include everyone participating in the College's extra-curricular life...
...bottom of the bundle, crushed under the burden of his gorgeous vestments, was the dry skeleton of what had once been a middle-aged Peruvian with greying hair. Amid all those glowing colors, he looked small and inconsequential. The diggers, fascinated by the era in which he lived, were not much interested in the man himself. Only one thing about him was worth noting: his legs were tightly folded under his chin because the ancient Peruvians believed that a man should lie m his grave in the position in which he lay in his mother's womb...
...effects of shipboard merrymaking, many of the 512 passengers-more than 80% of them Americans-never heard the cries of alarm. Some who did groggily dismissed them as the noise from another of the Noronic's boisterous parties. Overwhelmed by the flash fire's speed, the skeleton crew aboard the ship (30 out of 173) fought the fire for 13 minutes before sending an alarm to the Toronto Fire Department. Said one passenger later: "They might have been trying to put out hell with their fountain pens...