Word: coppering
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...terms: "The long years had dealt severely with them. . . . Their skeletons had virtually disintegrated during the many decades since they had been placed there." At burial the warriors had been sheathed with jewel-clotted gold. For each face there was a gold-&-turquoise mask. Extraordinary objects of gold, silver, copper, jade, turquoise, coral, pearl, nacre, rock crystal, alabaster, lay ranged about. Trophy of one warrior was a human skull, richly encrusted with turquoise and shell. In the hollow of the nose was a flint knife...
...Maestro gets his laughs out of diablerie and the grotesque. "Horse in the Moon" silhouets a bridegroom, apoplectic with lust, and the head of a dying horse against a copper moon. The bride, seeing these two dying animals, and hearing the cries of anticipant ravens in the empty heavens, runs for home and father. Theme of "The Cat, a Goldfinch and the Stars" is that every individualized consciousness is circumvallated by whatever body it may inhabit. The stars knew not that the cat killed the goldfinch; the cat knew nothing about that particular finch; the bird did not know that...
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...exhibition of the original drawings, the copper plates, and the etchings of Pablo Picasso for an edition of Ovid's Metamorphses will open today in the Contemporary Art Society's galleries in the Harvard Cooperative Society Building. The exhibition, which will continue through January 27, will consist of about thirty different works of the modern Spanish artist, which were recently shown at the Marie Harriman Galleries in New York...
With the industry apparently being patched up, copper buyers last week began to enter the market, sent the price to 7¼¢ from its recent low of 6¢. Although there was talk of 8¢, even 9¢ copper by the year-end, copper bulls predicated their prediction upon the assumption that copper is marked up every year when inventory-taking time comes to U. S. manufacturers. Real buying dwindled last week when the price showed signs of rising further...