Word: spaciousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...First Category." Thus began the greatest international exposition ever-the most spacious (6,000 acres), the costliest ($1 billion), the most imaginative and likely to be the most visited (some 10 million people are expected, twirling the turnstiles 35 million times). Since Queen Victoria and Prince Albert opened London's Great Exhibition in 1851, there have been dozens of "world's fairs." Some have left unforgettable landmarks (most notably, the Eiffel Tower from Paris' Exposition in 1889); some have simply left scars (the dilapidated architectural skeletons and sour aftertaste from the shill's paradise that...
...current show, at Manhattan's Durlacher Bros. Gallery, Tooker's eight latest paintings show that he is now using less spacious vistas, concentrating on shallow scenes that he calls "bas-reliefs." The themes that concern him are loneliness, racialism, death and youth. Lunch shows people packed closely at a Chock Full O'Nuts-style counter, munching in their respective dream worlds. Landscape with Figures shows haggard young people crouched in a huge honeycomb, and is "my way of protesting the situation kids are in now. I feel sorry for them with the draft, the pressures to conform...
Near the East German village of Wandlitz, nine miles to the east of Berlin, is a most unusual settlement. It is a walled-in compound of semi-forested land and wide lawns, within which sit some 20 spacious ten-to twelve-room houses. The houses contain marble from Italy, art from several countries, Renaissance and Baroque furniture from France and Belgium and plentiful expanses of plate glass from West Germany. The area is patrolled night and day by 160 well-armed guards, many of them equipped with submachine guns...
...distinctly unpretentious colonial house in the St. Louis suburb of Ladue, he reads papers and reaches decisions. At the plant, amid the wail of Phantoms taking off to fly directly to Viet Nam (with the help of in-flight refueling and an Okinawa stop), he operates out of a spacious but spartan corner office, with a scuffed carpet and hand-me-down, imitation-leather chairs...
...Bulls. Since before recorded history, Mesopotamia, "the land between the rivers," was the gateway between East and West; it was marched over, fought over, civilized and reduced to ashes by a dozen different peoples. The treasures contained in the Iraq Museum's five spacious, well-lit and air-conditioned buildings therefore trace an unequaled pageant of man's patient attempts to build and rebuild that ephemeral thing called civilization...