Word: neckedness
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Cleveland's new windows last week offered impressive opposition to this trend. They were not only magnificent and intricate examples of the stained-glass worker's art. They were Renaissance-style windows of the sort first-rate U.S. stained-glass makers had been studiously avoiding since the early...
While turbaned musicians, sitting cross-legged on the floor, thumped on queer-shaped drums with fingers, palms and sticks, clinked tiny cymbals and strummed the twangy, long-necked tambura, a flute spun its single thread of melody. In the traditional Indian dance-forms, the dancers moved hands, arms, shoulders, necks...
Few bureaucrats can tie such a Gordian knot of red tape as the gold-braided bigwigs of the U.S. Navy. Last week a rawboned, scrannel-necked Texan was busy cutting through those knots with a vengeance. As new production boss of the Navy, Vice Admiral Samuel Murray Robinson had the...
"Messieurs, la Cour." In a long-sleeved red robe with a jabot of lace at the throat and a cloak with ermine neck piece, the Chief Justice of the special tribunal, velvety Pierre Caous, took his seat. Flanking him were four other justices, an admiral, an Air Force general, glittering...
At the age of 25, hearty, life-loving Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn had made himself a precocious reputation as the finest society portrait painter in rich, 17th-Century republican Amsterdam. A proud, flamboyant personality, he charged Amsterdam's solid burghers, soldiers and surgeons high prices for his solemn, cloudy...