Word: torches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...works are too brutal to sit comfortably close together in the whitewashed, antiseptic setting of museum walls; they look best against the rolling mountains and lakeshore on which his Lake George studio faces. His Man and Woman in Cathedral (opposite) was jigsawed out of steel plate with an acetylene torch. "The name came merely because of the male and female in a vertical structural relationship." says Smith. "I named it afterward. The structure seemed kind of gothic, so that's how come 'cathedral.' When I work I don't name things. These damned words people have...
...Also last week he learned that he was the object of a nightclub torch song called I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles. Singer: pert Texas Redhead Carol Burnett, 24, at Manhattan's Blue Angel. Sample lyrics (by Ken Welch...
...Jayne Mansfield. If the fun bogs slightly and if some of the gags have family reunions in the end, Director Tashlin may be forgiven for too-muching his good thing. Hollywood has every right to try beating its rival's antennas with TV's own fallen torch...
...Arab refugees, to push French massacres in Algeria, to threaten the world with atomic disaster. Street stands are cluttered with paperback tracts such as one called This Is America, with a cover picture of Eisenhower as the Statue of Liberty, holding a gallows rope instead of a torch...
...kind of glittering circus that could be mounted by no Latin American nation except oil-rich Venezuela. Pérez Jiménez and his guest got things started by snapping to attention in Caracas' Plaza Bolívar while a comely maiden presented a "sacred torch," run into town by relays of students from the battle shrine at Carabobo, 120 miles away. Then, before a crowd of 100,000, the two strongmen dedicated the Avenue of Heroes, a gaudy, neo-Grecian plaza fronting the mammoth Armed Forces Club. The avenue's two 100-ft. towers, six reflecting...