Word: skyscraperism
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Gradually his primitivism disappeared, but no matter how mature his brush became or how rich his palette, his paintings never lost their Oriental lilt. His women were sensuous and thoroughly American, but they were nearly always by themselves, sad and impassive. What impressed him about the West was not its...
IN Houston this week the last steelwork was put in place for a 44-story skyscraper, the tallest building west of the Mississippi and the headquarters of a U.S. oil giant: Humble Oil & Refining Co. The giant is the creation of another giant, Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), the world'...
Marriage-Go-Round (20th Century-Fox). "Higamous hogamous! Woman's monogamous. Hogamous higamous! Man is polygamous." This questionable proposition, the theme of almost every sniggery story since Eve caught Adam fooling around with Lilith, served as a sort of epigraph to an anthology of off-color jokes composed in...
Guignard's Stations of the Cross paintings had to pass a difficult test, approval by Padre Guilherme Schubert, censor of sacred art for the Catholic Church in Rio. The artist and some of his friends fed the good father an excellent lunch of antipasto and steak, and followed him...
The symbol of Louisiana racism is a heavy man with pewtery hair, cold blue eyes, a cunning legal mind and a fanatic's zeal. To Leander Henry Perez, 68, there are just two kinds of Negroes: "Bad ones are niggers and good ones are darkies." Although he is not...