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There is something refreshingly obscene about the Bick at three in the morning. A film of dirty water covers the proliferating H's on the tile floor. The fluorescent lights shine unmercifully on the naked orange, brown, and green wall panels. And the pastoral murals along both sides of the room are somebody's idea of a bad joke...
...guns before ascending, with a veritable arsenal, to the observation deck of the limestone tower that soars 307 feet above the University of Texas campus. There, from Austin's tallest edifice, the visitor commands an extraordinary view of the 232-acre campus, with its green mall and red tile roofs, of the capital, ringed by lush farm lands, and, off to the west, of the mist-mantled hills whose purple hue prompted Storyteller O. Henry to christen Austin the "City of a Violet Crown." Whitman had visited the tower ten days before in the company of a brother...
...invalid, he still drew in masterly style using a 10-ft. bamboo pole with a crayon on its tip. With this and a pair of scissors, he created his last great masterpiece, the Chapel of the Rosary at Vence. With cut-out colored paper he designed stained glass, tile stations of the Cross, even abstract chasubles. In carving his colors with his hands in forms that startlingly foretold hard-edge abstraction, Matisse conquered the spectrum with his arabesque line. It was more than a homage to God. The chapel fulfilled in lines of color the lines of poetry that...
...taco on a plate is made of asphalt tile. Every object is rigidly held in place by epoxy, preserved in fiber glass, sometimes flocked to give it a mysterious felt texture. Point of it all? "People in any context are a reason for a tableau," says Kienholz, "this speaks volumes about our present society...
...Rarities. Lured by neat three-to five-bedroom models priced from $22,000 to $33,700 on generous-size 6,458 sq.ft. lots, 1,111 French families by last week had put down $100 deposits for the 510 homes planned for the site. No wonder. Though Levitt's tile-roofed masonry houses cost about 25% more than they would in the U.S., their prices run about 25% below those of other homes for sale around Paris. They also come equipped with such Gallic rarities as closets, kitchen ranges and refrigerators. "My only problem," says Levitt, "is producing enough...