Word: windows
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...cars. With the endlessly burgeoning number of models, they were having increasing trouble making the cars look different. The new Fords have a rear-end grill decoration reminiscent of the 1960 Cadillacs. Some of the cars in the General Motors family have a front-fender line and a rear-window slope that resembles this year's Fords. Dodge's new compact, the Lancer, borrowed the 1960 Pontiac grill; the rest of the car is almost identical with the Chrysler Valiant...
...minute. He pored over Jewish holy books for inspiration, spent each day at Barillet's rejecting and selecting pieces of glass, watching every move the artisans made as they went about their centuries-old task. The result was worth the effort: a majestic stained-glass window that is to be dedicated after Yom Kippur in the New Synagogue in the heart of Chicago's Loop (see color...
...speaks with bitterness in his special idiom of the "art burlesque stage of today the dehumanized designs that will "freeze one out of his livingness." His own canvases are often battlefields of hope and despair, evil and salvation-elongated figures imbedded in chunks of burning colors. By comparison, his window at first glance seems almost coldly abstract, but it is in fact a work of passion...
Each color has its meaning inspired in part by the Bible: green for youth, violet for age and wisdom, gold for prophecy. And the window itself is an intricate design of symbols whirring through the cosmos. To the left are the glowing symbols of the Eternal Light, the Flames of the Burning Bush, and the twelve tribes of Israel. In the center is the Tree of Life crowned by the seven branches of the Light of God. The Jewish symbol of the palm becomes a kind of ladder made up of the Hebrew character "shin," the first letter...
...many a helpless housewife and hapless weekend handyman, life's most nagging little crisis is an encounter with a leaky roof, a broken window or a clogged drain. Professional repairmen are hard to find, harder to pay. The do-it-yourself books often produce only frayed tempers, flayed thumbs. Last week, from Los Angeles to Long Island, the unhandy were entrusting chores to a new and spreading U.S. service: the home-repair club...