Word: parthenon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soft version of Chrysler's 1935 Airflow. But every good Freudian knows all that without having to prowl within a sculptor's imagination. On the other hand, who could anticipate Oldenburg's explanation of his sculpture Raisin Bread, Sliced? "It was conceived as a sort of Parthenon and was also suggested by a picture I saw of Paris' Madeleine Church turning into a loaf of bread. The piece has a lot to do with excrement and sex. It also has to do with cutting...
...evening before embarkation. His triplex apartment is on the highest rooftop on the highest street in Athens. His guests look out on painfully appropriate urban contrasts: from marble-and-plate-glass luxury across the charmless sprawl of the modern city to the ruined perfection of the floodlit Parthenon. This year former Democratic Senator William Benton was holding court on a huge sofa, playing the part he loves: the crusty old American millionaire. Former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, now a consultant on conservation, silently contemplated a Boeotian vase. Buckminster Fuller, a chunky little figure in black tie and white jacket, bald...
...wait for the NBC special "Jackie Redecorates the Parthenon." MARY MONA JOHNSON Dilley, Texas...
...center opened last month with a splendid exhibition of 59 paintings and drawings loaned by Paris museums. Alas for good intentions, the building itself has a cold, pretentious look and is, in effect, a massive box with a portico of sticklike, white concrete columns tacked on to suggest the Parthenon-or a Southern plantation mansion. "The result is Caricature Classicism," wrote the New York Times critic, Ada Louise Huxtable, "or Running Scared Modern...
Dominating Athens from a choice location 600 ft. up Mount Lycabettos is an enormous neon sign that outshines even the gleaming, floodlit marble of the Parthenon atop the Acropolis. The sign spells out the Greek word NAÍ in letters 30 ft. high. All over Greece, on walls, buses, taxis, telephone poles, billboards, farm carts, beach huts and whitewashed windmills in the Aegean isles, posters urge: NAÍ. Next week 5 million Greeks will vote NAÍ (yes) or ÓXI (no) in a referendum on a new constitution drafted by the military junta that has ruled the country since...