Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another, and the toenails looked like they hadn't been out for months, like a hawk's She was the thinnest person I had ever seen: she looked like these pictures from the concentration camps, except that her body was all by itself, and it was green. The skin just flopped ever her bones like the stuff you pick off the top of cocoa with your spoon...
...airplane has the look of an already obsolescent bomber. It is a familiar twin-jet Douglas B66 fitted out with oversize, swept-back wings. But a close look shows a more significant change. There are hundreds of paper-thin slots slicing through the wings' metal skin. And those slots, if the calculations of Northrop's Norair Division scientists prove correct, may well revolutionize the aircraft industry...
Skeleton & Skin. He now works in Karlsruhe, but the difference from the old days is that the city furnishes him with a studio that is 60 ft. wide, go ft. long and three stories high. There he labors over the massive cartoons for his windows. In starting a commission, he cooperates closely with the architect, for his designs come out of the "possibilities and opportunities afforded by the architecture of a given project. Take, for instance, a modern church that has a square-patterned concrete backdrop behind the altar. People don't like to see jail-type grids...
Meistermann regards architecture as the skeleton of the structure, his window's as the muscles and skin. "Modern architecture often tends to be utterly frugal, without fantasy or color," he says. "Man needs something human, a colorful element to break through such monotony. You cannot live with either water or des ert solely. Stained glass provides the living elements, the human touch...
...night. While roaming Europe in the early '30s, he flirted-but only flirted-with the abstractionists' world of pure forms and shapes. Back in Manhattan, he turned almost exclusively to nudes, refining his style until his surfaces were as smooth as a young woman's skin...