Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lawrence H. Repsher '61 stood down in a darkened corner of the practice field next to a hulking Stadium wall. Fifty-five yards away Bruce B. McIntyre '61 was methodically booming the ball up into the blackness. Every third or fourht kick would sail over Repsher's head. One went eight yards...
Judge Salles and his colleagues had good reason to chuckle. Reason: the winning work was not there at all, but 3,620 miles away on two 9-ft.-8-in.-high walls at Paris' new UNESCO headquarters (see color). In a sense, the choice of Joan Miró, 65, involved some polite intramural logrolling. Both Englishman Read and Frenchman Salles are on the UNESCO art committee that commissioned the murals. "I was prepared to find something else that competed with Miró," Sir Herbert Read said, "but I didn't think for a moment the other works...
...ceramics in collaboration with his old friend Josep Llorens-Artigas (TIME, Jan. 7, 1957). For the past two years he has been working hard on his UNESCO mural. Its imaginative images combine childlike delight with echoes of primitive Catalan signs and symbols. Once Miró destroyed one whole wall when it failed to please him, and began again. "Guessing the color of ceramic is like cooking a biscuit-you never know how it will come out," explained one expert ruefully. Miró's principal aim: "To make the murals harmonize with the architecture...
...knockdown, drag-out fight with reality. To enter his literary world is to enter a dark room in which at first the sparse furniture seems made of human bones. But as the slow light comes up through the long narrative, it is made clear that the ribs on the wall are a hatrack, that the upended coffin is a wardrobe and the skull under the bed is a more commonplace utensil...
...outline of Novelist-Playwright Felicien Marceau's new book, but it is the portraits within, not the frame without, that make it a sparkling display of French tragicomedy. An irresistible pair are stern father de Gau-grand, a half-mad patrician whose "broad back [extends] like the Great Wall of China," and his wife, who wears newspapers (for warmth) throughout the winter and sits down to all meals in hat and overcoat. Daughter Denise, raised in this nutty household, is more than a bit weak in the head, but far from weak in will-as her three fantastic rescuers...