Word: paperweights
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...wonder that the stars of the show seemed, especially during all the weeks of feverish preparation, to have been virtually swept off the stage. Charles still pressed on with his ceremonial schedule, even taking a side trip to Dartmoor Prison, whose inmates presented him with a ball-and-chain paperweight. Lady Diana showed up in the stands at Wimbledon, looking fetching and diverting spectator attention from the antics of John McEnroe on Centre Court. The two also appeared together in public-at a wedding and a film premiere-and managed to seem at ease, both with themselves and their adoring...
...clarifies, as never before, the taxing issue of what makes a Rodin "original." He did not work like a modern artist. He seldom carved his own marbles, never cast his bronzes, and turned his models over to assistants so that they could be done in a gamut of sizes. Paperweight to Large Economy Monument. Yet his artistic control remained absolute...
...only two experiences during my 50 years," he said. "One with Joanne, the other with Redford." And he presented Robert Redford, his co-star in The Sting, with a belated Christmas present -a paperweight that featured a pair of bright blue eyes (just like Paul's) that open and wink when placed under a light, inscribed "Forget...
Although Tate's early work can, on occasion, be derivative or hesitant ("It begins in uncertainty," said one critic, "and attains meaning only during composition"), his more mature poems are unquestionably written in his own voice--elegant, allusive, densely packed like semi-precious stones inside a glass paperweight. His later poems show a solidity, a self-confidence, not always removed from stubborness...
...Billy in fact, had a paperweight in his office which was a blob of polished amber with three ladybugs embedded...