Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proscenium, and one should no sooner replace it with yellow cardboard than paste floral wallpaper over the Sistine Chapel. Good notions run rampant through Pat Pilz's scenery, always to materialize several sizes too large, several colors too bright, and several pounds too collapsible. They have built the Great Wall of China where a picket fence was called...
...Radcliffe student said the Capitol Police who cleared the State House were "pretty rough. The thing that really scared me," she said "was facing that line of cops--it was a wall of impersonality...
...months old, I-I is entertaining as well as profitable. Behind its TIME-sized, pop-art covers often lurk such pro vocative questions as "Is 35 over the hill these days?" (on Wall Street, that is) and "What makes Dallas that way?" It also prints lively and not altogether flattering profiles of leading moneymen...
...notable journalistic coup was its re cent interview with the shadowy Alfred Winslow Jones, father of Wall Street's current investment sensation, the hedge fund (whose profit-at-high-risk philosophy aims at taking advantage of both upward and downward swings of the market). Touches of humorous erudition are sprinkled throughout. A regular monthly column, for example, is called "Haruspex," for the Roman soothsay ers who divined the future by poking through the entrails of sacrificial animals...
...fragile paper or unprimed canvas. On it, the artist of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries delineated his ideas, often in considerable detail, and submitted them to a patron for approval. The dash and daring all too often vanished when he transferred his design to an immense ceiling or wall. One reason: the sketch was the work of the artist, while the fresco was sometimes completed with the aid of assistants...