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U.S. in 1960. But in these magazine articles, written on his return to Russia, Novelist Viktor Nekrasov said so many nice things about the U.S. and so many uncomplimentary things about his own country that he was denounced for "bourgeois objectivism" and threatened with expulsion from the Communist Party. The...
As a member of the idealistic de Stijl group (TIME, May 8) in the 1920s, he planned spiral buildings before Frank Lloyd Wright built the Guggenheim Museum, and proposed horizontal skyscrapers on cantilevers before Le Corbusier built them. Rarely has he realized what he has designed on paper; he has...
As the nation's second most widely used metal (after steel), aluminum is a fair barometer of prosperity, since it is still considered a "glamorous" metal and is usually more expensive than steel. The industry, hit by an economic recession, overcapacity and a cutback in Government stockpiling, has not...
Curator Cavallo is fascinated by the affinities between the clothes and the architecture of the same period. He is not concerned with analogues of shape-stovepipe hats and railroad smokestacks, skyscrapers and sack dresses-but the way a period's characteristic modes of thought and feeling similarly influence the...
New York! At first I was confused by your beauty, by those great golden long-legged girls. So shy at first before your metallic eyes, your frosted smile So shy. And the anguish in the depths of skyscraper streets Lifting eyes hawkhooded to the sun's eclipse. Sulphurous your...