Word: woode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dusty, chaotic atmosphere separated points of importance. Besides the halls taken over for an organization center, the only buildings opened for use were two widely separated restaurants, the Soviet pavilion illuminated at the top by a Red Star, and exhibition halls turned into crude barracks with composition-wood dividers...
...Rome's Queen of Heaven jail, Lepori told his story: a onetime member of Italy's proud carabinieri, he had been released from a mental hospital during World War II to fight in the Italian army. After the war, the Defense Ministry gave him a job chopping wood and raking leaves in his native Sardinia. Last year, still suffering from his old mental illness, Lepori decided to retire-only to discover that he had not been on the ministry's permanent rolls and, after 15 years as a "temporary laborer," was not entitled to a pension...
...gets beneath none of the skin it flays. Nor does The Gang's All Here always jibe with the facts. Harding (inside the party) was no such convention dark horse as he is made out to be; nor was he quite such an incredible babe in the wood; nor did he gain so much stature at the end. There are several good performances in the play, and Jo Mielziner has designed some attractive sets. But they frame a story whose only asset is its effective storytelling...
...Hope Buick Show (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). The first of half a dozen Hope specials. Guests include the Crosby brothers, Natalie Wood, Dean Martin, and David Rose's orchestra...
...finished town hall is full of Aalto signature details, from the homey touch of grass growing on the informal stairway entry to the dramatic cantilever of the council hall, within which is the visitors' balcony overlooking the town council chamber. Wood, which the Finns call "green gold," is used exuberantly in the playful trusses in the roof and with caressing respect in the solid red pine furniture specially designed by Aalto for the interiors. Aalto can also be intensely practical, as he is in his design for the Lutheran Church at Vuoksenniska, finished earlier this year. Knowing the problems...