Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drawings now on show in Manhattan's Albert Landry Galleries are sharp and clear and natural, but taken as a whole they make sights that no one ever saw. One painting shows a huge rose filling an entire room. In another, loaves of French bread float by the window. In still another, a huge boulder, crowned by a castle, hovers over the sea: This sort of thing could be mere gimmickry, but in the hands of Belgium's Rene Magritte it rarely fails. "For me," he says, "art is the means of evoking mystery." His quiet mysteries...
...Rockford, Ill., one noon hour last week, a cooked-out housewife packed her three small children into the family car and set her course for a peppermint-striped glass-and-tile structure boasting a huge sign: MCDONALD'S HAMBURGERS. Stepping up to the self-service window, she ordered four hamburgers and milk shakes. Just 41 seconds and $1.40 later (hamburgers, 15?; shakes, 20?), she was on her way back to her waiting brood carrying an instant lunch...
Instead of guitar music, the folksingers were greeted by a painted sign in the Club's window reading: "One cannot sing in peace any longer. The police have closed our Sing Out for SANE...
...photography is fairly conventional, but it has its moments of pretension. The opening sequence is filmed through a window that reflects the slipshod buildings across the street. Then, one of the magnates, looking the other way through the same window, sees Rosemary undulating below. This sort of flashy technique jars with what follows, because so little of the movie involves any attempt at such pictorial effects...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, Willie Gilbert; music and lyrics by Frank Loesser) is a light, bright spoof of corporate wheels and wiles, and its up-from-window-washer hero, Robert Morse, is a superlative, tousle-haired, triple-jointed comic wonder who could coax laughs out of Mt. Rushmore...