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...single shot without having them trample each other or clutter the screen; the zoom-type lens moves from long shots to close-ups with a breathtaking rush and without loss of focus. With process shots (filmed backgrounds), Hobin can shoot scenes that look like Paris, Tokyo, the Taj Mahal or a Venetian canal...
Houghton, Gates and Waugh worked out new designs by letting the pure colorless crystal* "do what the material wants to do." The designs, said Gates, fell esthetically "somewhere between the curves of the Taj Mahal and the straight lines of the Empire State Building." From time to time they called on such outside artists as Raoul Dufy, Thomas Hart Benton, Salvador Dali, Jean Hugo and Moise Kisling. Steuben never tried to figure out what the taste of customers might be. Says Houghton loftily: "We made taste." By 1935, Steuben taste had made Steuben a success...
...time McCormick flew into Bombay last week, the Indians could hardly wait. Because of the Tribune's rabid opposition to anything British, India's nationalists have regarded Bertie as their best American friend. At Bombay's Taj Mahal Hotel, the 50 newsmen who met their best friend face to face got a rude shock...
...Having covered my share of wars, insurrections, uprisings, etc., I was prepared for a certain amount of trouble en route. But the Burma rebellion now in progress broke out after we had left, and the minor war around Kashmir didn't bother our seeing the Taj Mahal (a not the least overrated spectacle) at all. We had been warned that Cairo was no place for tourists this year, but, aside from one explosion near our quarters when some Arabs planted a bomb in a Jewish-owned department store, we made it safely out to the pyramids and back. Before...
...river bank the procession came to a field as different as possible from the glittering Taj Mahal. This field looked like a junkyard. Here & there water buffalo were grazing. The Department of Public Works had built overnight a square platform of brick and cement, three feet high and twelve feet square. At the four corners were stumps of the sacred peepul tree. On the platform was half a ton of sandalwood, mixed with ghi (melted butter), incense, coconuts and camphor. Gandhi's body was raised to the pyre...