Word: adornment
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...arbutus and the goldenrod The heart of the North may cheer And sunflower, cactus and poppy To sierra and plain be dear, And jasmine and magnolia The crest of the South adorn; But the wide Republic's emblem Is the bounteous, golden Corn...
Scripture forbids the creation of graven images.* but the compelling affirmation of the Talmud is "This is my God and I shall adorn Him." The solution for one of Israel's leading artists. Yehoshua Kovarsky, 49, was to move into his own kind of abstract symbolism, while holding to the philosophy that "an abstraction must have meaning for the viewer...
...tapped the resources of more than 88 museums, dealers and collectors here and abroad, including the famed oriental collection of Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology (see color pages). The total effect was as bedazzling as the golden phoenix with which T'ang emperors used to adorn the crowns of their empresses...
...Broadway after six years in Hollywood. Moreover, it brought her back-not least because of her own presence in it-in a very likeable show. The Judy Holliday who started her career in nightclubs shines readily in a musical. She can sing or do take-offs of singers and adorn a chorus or dance. In the role of a warmhearted answering-service operator, she can quaver like a beldam or give a rumbling impersonation of Santa Claus. But what is perhaps more important, she can look engagingly blank or beguilingly large-eyed, can be daft, sly, small-girl, strong-minded...
From Paris last week came word that UNESCO has commissioned six of the world's leading artists to adorn its new headquarters. One of the biggest commissions, for a conference room mural covering 1,100 sq. ft., was by no means likely to please some of UNESCO's more vociferous U.S. critics; it went to Millionaire Communist Pablo Picasso...