Word: limewood
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...late medieval German sculpture, and so do the claustrophobic spaces they inhabit--shallow, pleated, distorted into shoving and butting against the four edges of the canvas. The "naive" determination of 15th century carvers to get a deep room and a whole Last Supper out of a slab of limewood not much thicker than a plank--with the result that everything stands up and out, as if in fright--got transferred to Beckmann's argument with the flat canvas. Even the gestures are religious. Thus the showing of outstretched palms, Beckmann's favorite sign for pathos and surrender, comes from...
...jigger of cocktail rum (on which President Vincent is trying to get a 50% reduction of U. S. duty), a half teaspoonful of Angostura bitters and chopped ice to be spun rapidly with a limewood swizzle stick until the ice has melted and (hen drunk before the ''bead" on the liquor sub-sides...