Word: skyscraperism
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Women clutched children to their skirts and men edged for cover, for all knew that Scandalous John was the meatiest waddie ever to ride out of the West-the 1960s West of tail-finned Cadillacs and fat farm subsidies, that is. Unhappily, his neighbors back home in New Mexico considered...
Japanese Moviemaker Masaichi Nagata takes a ride down the old De Mille stream and soon finds himself up Spectacular Creek without a paddle. This footless, episodic epic on the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha tries to crowd everything in Buddhist literature into one elephantine moving picture. The parallels between...
Debuting as a contributing editor of Harper's Bazaar, Best-Dressed Beauty Mrs. Loel Guinness, 48, brightened the current issue with a piece titled "Gloria Guinness on Elegance." What's elegance all about? Well, her list of examples, reading like half a dozen extra choruses of Cole Porter...
For most of his sojourn upon earth, man built his houses, halls, castles and temples the way a child uses a set of building blocks-the walls support the roof. The age of the skyscraper demanded new methods and materials.
"I understand this is the largest government project of its kind anywhere in the country," says Architect Harrison. "It's certainly going to be one of the few places in the world where that American invention, the skyscraper, is given its proper place in relation to the buildings around...