Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fifties, Michelangelo began work on a new and smaller version of his 18-ft. marble masterpiece in Florence, the David. He never quite finished it. This week the little David was aboard the U.S.S. Grand Canyon, bound for the National Gallery of Art in Washington. It will have its first U.S. showing during Harry Truman's inauguration...
...most of the smaller U.S. symphony orchestras, a big-name guest soloist is a fellow who brings in a lot of money at the box office-and takes most of it away with him as he leaves the stage door. And for the Louisville Philharmonic Orchestra's money, Hollywood-priced soloists, playing the same old "boxoffice concertos" didn't advance music much anyway. So, last January, Louisville said goodbye to all that-and started saying a big hello to composers, who could be had for less...
...Nicholson looks rather like a smaller and more delicate Picasso-as does some of his work. He lives with his wife, Sculptor Barbara Hepworth, in a grey, gabled house on the Cornish coast, and does his painting in a small, tidy studio upstairs...
...grand-piano-shaped building, with no openings except eight doors and four "blind" doors for fire escapes. The glittering interior is even more startling. Instead of being supported by columns, the ceilings and walls of the rooms are suspended from overhead trusses. The rooms can be made bigger or smaller, depending on the size of the crowd, simply by ra:sing the walls through slits in the ceiling. Geddes hopefully expects that Copa City, "an entirely new idea in buildings," will start a revolution...
While CBS Board Chairman William Paley was proving once again that this is a year for underdogs, NBC was crying "Foul!" Though trade papers had banner-lined that he had made similar-but smaller-offers to keep Benny, President Niles Trammell announced primly that NBC would "continue to refuse" any part in capital gains deals "until the U.S. Treasury says that such transactions are lawful . . ." Scoffed a CBS spokesman: "Mr. Trammell's statement is unwarranted and reflects unfairly on many creative artists who have done no more than abide by our tax laws like any businessman or corporation...