Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dissonant works of art. The bewildering array of influences and counterinfluences in contemporary art, from the School of Paris to the New York School, from abstract expressionism to symbolic African primitivism, from the revival of art nouveau to the revival of Dadaism, all seem to call for a Rosetta stone, a hieroglyphic key to release meaning from mystery. Dokumenta III comes close to being that Rosetta stone...
...chagrin, the Crillon discovered that some of its columns were made of wood cleverly painted to simulate stone. The facade of the Invalides, where Napoleon lies buried, provided another embarrassing surprise. Pockmarked by gunfire during the liberation of Paris, it had been repaired on the cheap, with cement...
...whites contend that style, not dirt, gives a building distinction. Says Bernard Vitry, who directed the cleaning of the Madeleine: "I love stone too much not to wish to see it." Malraux says that art is "the presence in our lives of what should belong to death," and holds that classic buildings cloaked in mantles of soot are deadened, if not dead. To look on beauty bare, as it is emerging in Paris, is to see what is agelessly and vibrantly alive, what T. S. Eliot called "the present moment of the past...
Jungles and an Aviary. Individual architects such as Edward D. Stone and Philip C. Johnson have designed custom-built atrium houses for private clients in years past. But only lately have mass builders begun to adopt the style. Pacesetter Homes set 169 atria on a tract in San Clemente, Calif., and Builder William J. Levitt-of the Levittown Levitts -includes a version of the house in his 1,450-unit development currently abuilding near Cape Kennedy, Fla. Greatest enthusiast is California's Joseph L. Eichler, who has built some 3,000 houses in 31 development tracts in the last...
...Kong Le, the Communists thought they had an invaluable tool. Politically unformed, the little captain was immensely popular with his troops and the Laotian people. In superstition-ridden Laos, Kong Le was believed invulnerable to gunfire. The bad, or cotton strings, he wore tied around his wrists and a stone amulet he carried in a pouch at his waist kept his 32 souls (one for each major part of the body) from fleeing. The phi or demon who guarded him was undoubtedly among the underworld's most powerful, for Kong Le had never been wounded...