Word: amber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annoyed to find that he is standing on his tail, gravely tips himself over by pulling it out from underneath. Miniature anteaters cry when caught, curl up pathetically with face in paws, uncurl suddenly and nab your arm. Pea-size frogs croak like bullfrogs. One beetle is equipped with amber landing light. A bird sings sophisticated Gershwin melodies. Quanks, opossums, howler monkeys, capybara, sloths, tamarins, uropygi come in all sizes and shapes, display remarkably varied habits...
...Chicago's elegant Goodman Theatre was packed to its heavy oak doors. What drew this throng was no thunder-rousing maestro or pudding-fed diva, but a pair of pale, genteel young men who plunked softly on 18th-Century-model harpsichords. Before a silver backdrop, gently lit by amber lights, they joined in deft pluck-a-pluck duets by Mozart and Bach. Occasionally they were joined by two lush lady harpsichordists in 18th-Century lace and velveteen. To all this harpsichordery their audience listened reverently, applauded with loud smacks. For they were listening to the No. 1 harpsichord team...
Last week a showing of Lalique glass went on display at Saks Fifth Avenue, Manhattan smartshop, which served to commemorate a notable craftsman's career. The glass ranged the Lalique shades from frosty blue to smoky amber, the Lalique styles from severe to elaborate, the Lalique sculpture from playful to precise. In many an onlooker's mind was the Rond-Point on Paris' Champs-Elysées, where Lalique fountains, illuminated in pre-blackout evenings, sent showers of crystal drops curving high...
This little drama occurred during the Oligocene Period, some 30,000,000 years ago, in the Baltic region. Last week the shells of the spider (Oonopidae) and the bark louse (Psocidae), beautifully preserved in the amber, were put on display at Manhattan's Museum of Natural History...
...premier who was too antiSemitic. All this has made him a little more acceptable to the British royal family. Last week Carol's first official call was on Queen Mother Mary at Maryborough House, where he presented gifts of lace and a necklace made of famed Rumanian black amber. Liberally dispersed were other gifts to the royal family-costumed dolls to the princesses, an amber cigaret holder to King George, an amber necklace to Queen Elizabeth...