Word: tympana
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...narrowed its angle even further and focused on the nail of the big toe, which then got conflated with the crescent moon: a small step for mankind, but a big one for a foot.) Time and again, looking at carved Romanesque capitals and tympana in Catalan churches, from Ripoll in the north to Tarragona in the south, you catch yourself breathing his name. His bestiary of images, wild and swarming and drawn with a line as exact as a knife's cut, comes from multiple sources. One, obviously, was Hieronymus Bosch. Another was the decorative art of Islamic Spain, with...
...Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan (TIME, Jan. 12), returned to the hamlet of Bakersfield, Calif. His traveling appointments and haberdashery were in perfect taste. In the local opera house, he lifted the voice that had made the gallery-ghouls of the Metropolitan beat their palms red and had thrilled the tympana of the Diamond Horseshoe-Striving to please, Baritone Tibbett continued his concert three-quarters of an hour overtime. "I gave my best," he said. Bakersfield bankers and merchants agreed that his tone was pleasant, his diction creditable...