This fairly unimaginative short fill is, I'm happy to say, more than made up for by generous interesting longer fill, including ORGIES (22D) and PENMANSHIP (30D), which are two great tastes that taste great together. There's an abundance of tired fill that doesn't start with "E" - NTWT (55D), AREA (56D), ARIA (53D), ODEA (7D) and the old-school, Maleska-era throwback ABIE (19D). I don't know if I'm annoyed by all the conventional fill or amused by the "E" party. In addition to these "E" words, we have EDER (15A), ERE (2D), EGO (34D), and EX-MET (43A) (that last one -> ouch). Gimme an "E"! Who opened the "E" pen at Krosswordese Korner? Pantheon stalwarts are running amok. Must move even more quickly today, as I'm on Sahra-patrol (she's out of school for the T-giving week, and she and I are due at Denny's to eat breakfast with mommy's students in about a 1/2 hour!). ![]() I especially like that 20A (THEME): Generals and such (military brass) is crossed at the "Y" by 9D: Certain well-traveled child (army brat). Couldn't ask for more from a Tuesday puzzle. Today's theme was very clever, neat, tidy, musical. It's actually written by Paul Francis Weber and Jerry Livingstone. Oh ick, here's an online Casio keyboard version of some kind. ![]() I don't think it's something I've ever said before, and in fact I'm not sure that the proper phrase isn't "fifth of never" or "twelfth of never." Oh, there's a song called "The Twelfth of Never" by, it looks like, Johnny Mathis, and possibly Keith Urban. Third, I have a question about the phrase "the fourth of never," which I used last night for some reason, to the surprise of my wife who had just heard the phrase used earlier in the day by one of her students. I used to have to point to the string of horrid and / or failed vanity sitcom projects to make my point. Second, I have said before, many times, maybe here, certainly elsewhere, that the non-Jerry "Seinfeld" actors are Not funny. ![]() I misunderstood someone's comment at another site. Weird, the angle of the Times photo really exaggerates the sense of perspectival space in ways that a straight-on shot like the one arthag took does not.THEME: "Orchestra" - final words of three long theme entries are BRASS, STRINGS, and WINDS, with the theme ORCHESTRA (58A) also in the gridįirst, a correction: at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, competitors solve on paper, not the computer. As the American Society of Landscape Architects noted when it gave Smith an award in 2009, the design is rooted in historic concepts of camouflage and the abstracted simulation of natural forms.Īnd speaking of simulation, check out this giant color photomural from the MCNY exhibition, which almost makes you feel like you’re right there in the living room of Saarinen’s 1953-7 Miller House. ![]() Saarinen’s CBS HQ has the usual skyscraper cruft on the roof.īut fortunately, it’s right across the street from MoMA, where landscape architect Ken Smith’s 2005 Roof Garden is clearly visible. The Google Maps reality is, alas, not so clean. Check out the big CBS-eye view of Saarinen’s model for Black Rock: The show included the 1939 model for the unrealized Smithsonian Gallery of Art, which he designed with his father Eliel, and which would have sat across the Mall from John Russell Pope’s just-finished neo-classical National Gallery.īut it also included some sweet, giant photos, as the NY Times’ slideshow shows. I only go to the Museum of the City of New York for their gala, and I’m the loser for it: because I missed “Shaping the Future,” curator Donald Albrecht’s Fall 2009 exhibition of Eero Saarinen. You know what, it’s been too long since we had a good, old-fashioned photomuralin’ around these parts.Īnd one that combines a bit of Google Maps-ready, roof-as-facade architecture? And camo? Even better.
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