Word: rococo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Simple. Tebaldi was alive with animal grace; she made theatrical sense out of the threadbare story of an actress who loves a nobleman, loses him, and is reunited with him on her deathbed. The Met's new production was as handsome as its heroine-a succession of rococo interiors filled with wandering wigs and satins-and Tenor Corelli was in good form. But even at his best last week, he was shaded by Tebaldi...
Slimming Down. In Nebraska. Colorado and North Carolina, voters approved plans to trim the gingerbread off woefully rococo judicial systems. North Carolina's Governor Terry Sanford led his state's fight for court reform, declared that the present system contains "glaring evils"-among them, the fact that most of the nearly 900 justices of the peace get no pay for hearing a case unless they convict the defendant...
...licked in an equally fascinating fight for the nominally nonpolitical job of state superintendent of public instruction. The winner was a formidable, get-back-to-fundamentals conservative: zesty Max Rafferty, 46, onetime superintendent of schools in a Los Angeles suburb, whose recent book, Suffer, Little Children, argues in rococo prose that progressive education has led to "slobbism," and who calls for a spartan return to ''sweat, service and sacrifice...
...phase of late 14th century and early 15th century art. The display was sponsored by the Council of Europe, which for the past seven years has been trying to prove, through a series of ambitious exhibitions, that Europeans have always had a common culture. The exhibitions have ranged from rococo to Romanesque to the romantic, and each year a different city has played host. In a sense, the Vienna show -"European Art Around 1400"-is the most complex, for the period forms a cultural valley between the spiritual peak of the Gothic cathedral and the humanism of the later Renaissance...
...whole cases of it) to their families back home. Recently sales of new Meissen to the U.S. and other Western countries have slackened. Hemmed in by Communist artistic canons, the company has failed to turn out successful modern designs, instead relies on old patterns which contemporary Westerners find too rococo...