Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moorish tracery. Covering an area larger than six football fields, it is the biggest exhibit based on a single theme ever assembled by government or private industry, will later be used for educational and scientific purposes. One of the fair's most spectacular features is its International Fountain, designed by two young Tokyo architects whose plan won a $250.000 international competition last year. Sunk in a 100-ft. bowl of white crushed limestone, the fountainhead looks like a bristling World War II sea mine, shoots jets 100 ft. into the air, and presents 20-minute programs of changing shapes...
...variety and diversity." Midtown intermingles old and new buildings, tall ones and squat ones, and there is space for a post office, playground and a new auditorium. Third, there must be "improved environmental quality," by which he means the air-conditioned 20th century town square, complete with its fountain and sculptures...
...Author Jack is as droll as the early Evelyn Waugh he so obviously admires. The book has some fine set pieces of English comic writing: e.g., Bandy's defeat at the hands of an antique bathtub armed with such fixtures as "Douche, Spray, Wave, Plunge, Hot, Cold, Shower, Fountain, Plug, Waterfall and Sprinkler." But Author Jack does more than play it for laughs. Men die on barbed wire and a hand sticks out of the water in the bottom of a shell hole. ("It seemed to be waving at us cheerfully. Rollo shook hands with it.") This mingling...
...kookie guardian, and sends a man-woman social worker team to investigate. With the arrival of these visitors from the small, strange planet of Social Science, the evening rockets into hilarity. The woman (Sandy Dennis) is a girl with dew-behind-the-ears charm and a tendency to fountain into tears of self-reproach at her own unsociological impulses: "I hate Raymond Ledbetter. and he's only nine years...
Lost Capacity. Fitzgerald was bent and almost broken with disappointment. His wife Zelda was slowly sinking into madness, and Turnbull does a moving and convincing reporter's job on tracing Zelda's decline from the brittlely gay young madcap who could bathe in the Plaza fountain at midnight to the hopeless schizophrenic that she became. As Fitzgerald put it in his notebook: "I left my capacity for hoping on the little roads that led to Zelda's sanitarium." By the '30s, Fitzgerald had lost his early conviction that "life was something you dominated if you were...