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...entire gallery. "You can't absorb the room in one glance," explains Kiesler. "You must know what's above, below-again the totality." Part of the whole, called The Last Judgment, consists of a huge bonelike shaft of fire-gilt bronze that thrusts through a Plexiglas slab at counterimages of heaven and earth. It leaps up at an aluminum table whose bronze legs look like lightning bolts and jabs down at a white bronze floor plate. "Feel it," urges Kiesler, "the metal is warm like a woman's belly...
...Plymouth will grow from a 116-in. to a 119-in. wheelbase and become more interchangeable with the 119-in. Dodge. In addition to fielding a sports car, American Motors will introduce a new, longer (by 10 in.) Ambassador and a restyled Classic. Mercury will have a handsome new slab-sided car completely different in appearance from the Ford. The standard Ford will come out in its own version of slab-styling, first introduced by the 1960 Lincoln Continental, will also add vertical dual headlights à la Pontiac. For the first time in recent years, Ford's styling, which...
...picks up a rolling pin that could only have been made from a sequoia and crunches it down on a slab of cold butter. She lifts up a cleaver and amputates the outer wings of a goose, with a couple of chops that sound like cannon fire. She pops a chestnut into her mouth to see if it is done. She smiles and says between swallows, "Welcome to The French Chef. I'm Julia Child...
Prisoners are fed at six and six. The morning meal consists of three cold biscuits. The whites are served first, (theirs may be warm--I don't know), a strip of "streak-o'-lean" bacon, and a tablespoon of cane syrup. Supper is one slab of cornbread (cold again), rice, and red beans. Prisoners are given a mattress and a blanket upon arrival, to be returned upon release. No uniforms are issued and neither are packages of fresh clothing permitted...
...they emerged from their private talks with the Secretary-General, word spread through the slab-sided building that all parties were at least somewhat closer to agreement on a solution to the complex Cyprus problem...