Word: vistas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week visitors to the Farnsworth Art Museum at Rockland, Me. saw a sweeping vista of this tidy world. It had the pure newness of renderings on an architect's drawing board. Among the 53 Fransioli works were paintings of New England houses as scrupulous as portraiture. There were cityscapes of Boston and Cambridge in which the red bricks of Beacon Hill and Harvard glow with warmth, the Charles is mirrorlike and the winter sun, casting long shadows, is bright on the bare trees. His ruler-drawn interior, Vista from Within, suggests the antiseptic foyer of a brand...
...would enjoy more writing like that in your Aug. 9 report, in which "belts slide down to embrace the haunch where a girl has most to embrace." And "the plunging neckline is an enticing vista down which men have been peering happily for years...
...flat in front, straight and flat behind. They dropped undisturbed from narrow sloping shoulders, passed the waist without a flicker of recognition and settled just south of the bottom. Belts sagged low around the haunch, embracing a girl where there is most to embrace. The plunging neckline, an enticing vista down which men had been peering happily for years, was firmly closed over by featureless cloth. Even evening dresses hovered near the collar bone. Fashion editors burbled of "straight, flat pullovers," "oldfashioned middy blouses...
...Hawley, the American College of Surgeons has been urging county medical societies to crack down on ghost surgery and fee-splitting. Last week the San Diego society did so. It slapped a one-year suspension on Physician Egbert Morris Hayes of Palm City and Surgeon Wesley Walters of Chula Vista. This would not keep them from practicing, but barred them from leading hospitals in the country...
...screen and 2.55 to 1 for Fox's CinemaScope). Adaptable to standard movie-house projectors, the high-wide process is also handsome; no matter where the moviegoer sits in the theater, the picture is always in focus. Paramount plans to make all its future films in VistaVision. Coming Vista Visions: White Christmas (with Bing Crosby), DeMille's The Ten Commandments...