Word: skyscraperism
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As Novelist Rand sees it, the creative individual (Gary Cooper as a daring young architect) is threatened with extinction by the collective herd (Raymond Massey and Robert Douglas as the publisher and architecture critic of a powerful New York newspaper). Though photographed as if it were a titanic struggle between...
Like a runaway Wagnerian opera, Fountainhead lumbers from crisis to crisis in a hysterical crescendo of muddleheaded talk and stagy pretentiousness. Its final, most brassy explosion: an enormous, foreshortened view of Gary Cooper-presumably a hulking symbol of rugged individualism -straddling the topmost scaffolding of his new skyscraper. Apparently aimed...
The Secretariat, a 39-story office skyscraper towering above the long low assembly building, looked more like an ice-cream sandwich. Its north and south walls were the ice cream-solid bands of marble. The east and west walls were corrugated expanses of blue-green glass. Each wall consisted of...
It would be a notably narrow skyscraper (72 ft. wide, 544 ft. high). "Greater total width would have been undesirable," the FORUM explained, because so many of the prospective tenants were high brass who would require honorific outside offices. There was a similar diplomatic reason for the Secretariat's...
What Day Is It? At midnight, Communist infantrymen commanded by General Chen Yi began filtering into Shanghai through the French concession in the southwest. The Reds moved as quietly as they could. In small groups they advanced slowly down the sidewalks of Avenue Joffre and Great Western Road, sidling close...