Word: stucco
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...closet; old-style elegance is today as vestigial as the ear lobe. Among the brass, glass and steel chains that proliferate across the country, the few fine old hotels left shine like solid gold pieces. The best of the remaining best is a sprawl of pink and green stucco called the Beverly Hills Hotel, which last week turned 50 years old with style...
Most of the Hutchins products are finished in the kitchen of a brown stucco house in which violins, violas and cellos are piled under tables, filed away in secretaries, and hang from curtain rods and moldings. Mrs. Hutchins tests her newly devised instruments in a basement lab full of measuring equipment that she mastered only after several years of electronics study. The biggest of her new in struments, the large bass, and the small est, the treble, are still causing trouble. It would take a seven-foot man to play the large bass unless she can somehow alter its proportions...
...crowd of 500 clustered near the striped canopy, and out stepped silent Film Star Mary Piclcford, 69. "Hi there," said she with a dear smile, only 3 hours and 15 minutes late to preside over the dedication of movieland's first wax museum, a $1,500,000 white stucco building in Buena Park, Calif. Among the 65 sculptures already inside are tableaux of the Barrymores in Rasputin and the Empress, Gable and Leigh in Gone With the Wind, Pickford and Second Husband Douglas Fairbanks Sr., whom she divorced in 1936, in The Taming of the Shrew...
...back at such criticism with a barrage of satire, scorn and scriptural learning. "I was hard then," he says. "Now that I am older, I am softer." This older, mellower Barth seems eager only to get on with the fourth section of Volume IV of Dogmatics. At his stucco house on Basel's Bruderholzallee, day begins around 8, when Barth's wife, or his longtime secretary. Charlotte von Kirschbaum, tiptoes to the phonograph and puts on a record. The music that serves as his alarm clock is always by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose work Barth describes...
Saul Bass works in an old stucco house on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard. He quit his job at an ad agency to set up his own shop there in 1955. Madison Avenue advertising agencies now study Saul Bass film credits in search of new techniques for TV commercials. At 41, Bass is easily the highest-priced man in his field. He is also the creator of the new color-drop Kleenex box and the new, wasp-waisted Wesson Oil bottle. He never repeats him self. "If you don't risk everything every time out." he says, "your creative...