Word: couches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high speed he proceeded to do a second painting of the Duchess in exactly the same pose (reclining on a couch, her arms folded under her head, a subtly inviting smile on her lips), but this time dressed in white silk. Confronted with the second picture, the Duke was temporarily appeased; but something apparently went wrong, he found out the truth and promptly poisoned his unfaithful wife. Goya lived to be 82, and the two pictures became world-famous as La Maja Vestida (Gay Lady Clothed) and La Maja Desnuda (Gay Lady Nude...
Inside, the elegance had long ago faded out of sight. It was badly furnished and amazingly overcrowded. Landlady Stertz was a greedy, bulky, granite-faced woman who, on hot Chicago nights, would snooze sweatily naked on the parlor couch...
...Take it slowly, easily," said the blue-grey-eyed psychiatrist (who, as this book's laconic hero, has helped to win its author the $10,000 Harper Prize Novel Contest). "Listen, don't you want me on the couch?" muttered John Brown, who had come to his session of psychoanalysis feeling as supine in body as in mind...
...Utmost. Back in England, they built a country home with a gigantic studio, a gallery open to the public, and a niche where the old Signer could relax on a red silk couch while Mary read to him. In his black scull cap and snowy beard, Watts looked more & more like a Titian portrait. As he grew old, moral philosophy became his chief interest. In the last years of his life he would pause in the garden as he passed the terra cotta sundial given him by his wife, to look at his own motto upon it: "The Utmost...
...music. Nearby are five dachas, or cottages, where each composer can lock himself in to work in privacy. There, during the past two summers, Shostakovich finished his Eighth Symphony, Khachaturian, his Second, and Prokofiev finished his Fifth and began his Sixth. Prokofiev worked in a glassed-in verandah - containing couch, grand piano, chair and table -overlooking a pond where Ivanovo village kids swim...