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When the actual structure began going up, its exterior proved too much for many critics as well, was dubbed "the snail," an "indigestible hot cross bun," a "wash ing machine." Robert Moses, New York City Parks Commissioner and Metropoli tan Museum ex officio trustee, decided that it looked like "an inverted oatmeal dish." Wright fired back: "It's going to make the Metropolitan Museum look like a Protestant barn." Twenty-one artists signed a round-robin protest charging that Wright's scheme for hanging would throw their canvases askew and the sloping ramp (3%) would provide no level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Last Monument | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...talent gravitates to a few favorite spots in Florida and Las Vegas. So where does the poor boniface put his coin these days? The only blue chips, according to Variety, are the little intimate places and a couple of hotel and club plusheries in each of the really hub metropoli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Flivving Niteries | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...meet: the 53rd annual Metropoli tan A.A.U. track & field championships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cannon's Shot | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

...Blashfield, Ignacio Zuloaga, Sir Laurence Alma-Tadema. Emanuel Leutze, the creator of Waslington Crossing the Delaware, and the society portraits of John Singer Sargent (like most critics Walter Pach has respect for the Sargent water colors). He tore into the critics who had praised them, the museums, particularly the Metropoli- tan Museum of Art, that bought them. A week later he gave an exhibition of his own paintings and invited the enemy to do its worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pach Back | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

Naturally such a play is not for rustics or provincial cityites. Last week the Author-Producer, famed Walter Hasenclever, made the questionable move of taking his farce, Marriages Are Made in Heaven, away from the great German metropoli and out to Frankfurt-am-Main. There good and pious Frankfurters tried to wreck the piece. When God lit a cigar they hissed. When he picked up a saxophone and tooted they booed. But pandemonium did not break loose until God accepted a highball from Mary Magdalene, grew confidential and confessed: "You know I never did create the World. Queer how that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Blasphemous Play | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

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