Word: stairway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shahn combined social and individual commentary in such fine works as the war-haunted Red Stairway and the wryly idyllic Spring (opposite). At peace with the world in recent years, he has been overtaken in his later work by his weakness for arty picture-making of an allegorical sort...
...level, reached by a winding stairway in the tower, is divided into the Nest, workroom for artists; the tower room, furnished chiefly with a moth-eaten Ibis; and the Great Hall. This last is the most impressive, reserved for Lampy's state occasions. At first glance, it seems extremely large because of a foreshortened perspective and triangular shape. The Hall's main features include a large, carved mantelpiece of Elizabethan vintage, serpentine electric light brackets, and suits of Japanese armor. A solid oak table stands in the center, and is deeply carved with the initials of early members...
Downstairs in the building scattered sheets of yellow copy paper cover the desks and most of the News Board floor. Not a Crimed is in sight. Voices drift down the stairway...
Rome 11 O'Clock (Paul Graetz; Times Film Corp.) was inspired by a real happening in Rome in 1951. The picture tells of 200 job-hungry girls who show up in response to a want ad for one stenographer. As they wait in line, the office building stairway on which they are standing collapses under their combined weight. The movie focuses on several of the girls, e.g., the daughter of a rich family who is in love with a poor artist, a streetwalker trying to get honest employment, a stenographer who has been seduced by her former employer...
...appears a lot larger than the same set in one of the old-fashioned movies. The new technique, in effect, reveals that movie sets are large than life size in order to facilitate camera movement. This becomes obvious when you see a shot of a person walking up a stairway that is probably ten feet wide...