Word: verde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story concrete structure that will sit on an island in Manhattan's Columbus Circle. Turning his back on the glass-brick walls he used for Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, Stone has designed a monumental façade of white marble, enriched by porphyry and verd antique marble medallions over the columns of the arcade. Admits Stone: "The resemblance to Venice, the Ca' d'Oro and Doges Palace, is probably unmistakable...
...stage of Milan's La Scala one evening last week, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, mused about the futility of wealth and power. The aria, Oh! de' verd'anni miei, got hearty applause. After the curtain fell on the third act of Verdi's Ernani, barrel-chested Baritone Cornell MacNeil scurried back to his dressing room, where he signed his name to a La Scala option for next season. Then he dispatched a cable to his wife in Cliffside Park, NJ.: "We tore up the pea patch, doll...