Word: backdrop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then, Broadway scarcely has the resources that are required to gild this sort of lulu. Instead of $100,000, the movie's Producer-Director Stanley Donen had about $1,500,000 to squander. Instead of painted flats, he had the city of London for his backdrop, and some of the city's stateliest halls for his interiors. Instead of nature's timid hues, he had Technicolor. Instead of a couple of merely famous names-Mary Martin and Charles Boyer-on his marquee, he had two of the biggest that have ever been in the business-Ingrid Bergman...
...spotlight some outstanding pieces of architecture worth saving. Examples were found in almost every section of the U.S., turned up in out-of-the-way places, took surprising forms (including a jail). Items: ¶ The East Front of the U.S. Capitol (TIME, June u, 1956 et seq.), the traditional backdrop for presidential inaugurations. Architects and historians (keep it as it is) are lined up against Speaker Sam Rayburn and the Congress' Commission for the Extension of the Capitol (remodel it). Current status: inactive, with Capitol Architect J. George Stewart authorized to begin alterations, but no contracts let. ¶ Walnut...
Winchell strutted onstage before Brobdingnagian blowups of his column, singing New York's My Beat! There followed something called "The Walter Winchell Story," an unabashed paean with heavenly choirs, lots of girls, sawing violins and huge backdrop photographs of Winchell the baby, the boy and the man, among swirling Manhattan towers and streaky dawn skies. Intoned an announcer: "Strange, perhaps, that a man who has delivered gangsters to the FBI and announced the murder of a mobster five hours before his assassination, should be a poetry lover. But sonnets have led off Walter's column now and then...
Flanking the central tower, Mies designed wings, thereby gained valuable rental area and created a backdrop that from the street effectively masks the old Y.W.C.A. building at the rear of Seagram's. To strengthen the structure against winds, he designed concrete sheer walls for two sides in the rear. Bronze sheathing for the exterior appealed to Mies because "it is a very noble material and lasts forever if it is used in the right way." Expected to weather to a darker shade, except where the wind scours the edges bright, the bronze will be hand-wiped from...
Against the wintry backdrop of statistics, President Eisenhower sent to Congress this week a calm reminder of the U.S. economy's strength and a firm prediction of its renewed growth. The President's yearly Economic Report, drafted with the help of his Council of Economic Advisers, reiterated that 1957 was a year of record-setting prosperity. Total industrial output equaled the 1956 record. Gross national product ($434 billion) and total personal income '($343 billion) surpassed 1956 levels by 5%. At midyear the employment total stood at a new record high of 67.2 million, and the last quarter...