Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both the Wertheim and Pearlman Collections have the consistency of excellence and caring taste which establish great collections: their exhibition, along with the Fogg's own fine 19th century collection, leads Miss Agnes Mongan, Acting Director of the Fogg, to remark with justifiable pride: "You would have to go a long way--either across America or upon the Continent--to find a better 19th century collection this summer." For those readers who prefer deeds to words, a rather partial inventory of the collections shows: 12 water-colors and drawings by Cezanne, and oils by the following: Gauguin (1), Monet...
...Pearlman Collection (which is labeled "from an anonymous collection") has one overwhelming concentration: a dozen watercolors and drawings by Cezanne (along with three paintings)--an amassment which the painter's biographer John Rewald calls second to none in the world. I refer the reader especially to two of the landscapes, Arbres Formant La Voute (1906) and Citerne au Parc du Chateau Noir (1895-1900),--in these water-colors the broken planes and volumes show the new dimension of time which the "Grandfather of Cubism" tentatively proposed as an extension of the three-dimensional perspective space system perfected by the Renaissance...
...point of exchanging the love letters to be sure each has the right one, when both letters are identical. Ford's "The clock gives me my cue" is accompanied by strokes on a cow-bell. When Falstaff is smuggled out in the laundry basket, the wives have to sidle along together to hide Falstaff's enormous hat from the jealous eyes of Ford. After Falstaff has drunk some sack, he is still conveniently soaking his legs in a tub of hot water, so that he gets an extra laugh by gesturing to the tub as he exclaims, "Take away these...
Everyone connected with this production has brought along the necessary amount of wit. And I strongly urge you to see for yourself that Shakespeare could turn out a helluva good bedroom farce...
Bovine Dentures. False teeth for cows have been developed by Colorado Rancher Rood Menter and Nebraska Dentist Ward Newcomb. Cows often wear out their front teeth by chewing abrasive materials along with grass, thus shortening their lives. The false teeth, consisting of stainless steel caps, were designed to prolong the breeding lives of valuable cows, paying off in extra calves. Cost: about...