Word: amphoras
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...Persistence of Memory, 1929, with its everlastingly famous soft watches--is not in this show, but another and equally beautiful small picture is: Paranoiac-Astral Image, 1934. On a vast and otherwise empty plane of beach flat as a billiard table, four images are dispersed. A fragment of an amphora suggests "deep" time, the Greco-Roman past of the Catalan coast. A distant woman, perhaps the constantly remembered nurse of Dali's childhood, is almost bleached out by the sunlight. In a stranded boat, another woman, probably his muse and wife Gala, confronts a boy in a sailor suit...
...authors look aloof, mysterious and witty. They must tantalize the reader's curiosity but not give too much away. We find the ancient Greeks so fascinating because we only possess fragments of their work. A plan file is like a fragment of a personality, a shard from a giant amphora. It tempts us to put all the pieces together and reconstruct the person from the parts...
Some important items from the original show, such as the 12th century ivory- inlaid minbar, or high preacher's throne, from the Kutubiyya mosque in Marrakesh, were also deemed too fragile to travel. When the Spanish authorities refused to lend one of the spectacular amphora-type "Alhambra vases," with its luster glazes and formalized handles like angels' wings, another was lent by the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. But even in its truncated form, "Al-Andalus" is not an exhibition to miss...
...series of cutout cardboard models of sculptures--labelled "Aphrodite" or "Panathenaic Amphora" or "Southern Italian Vases"--occupy the rooms. The Museum staff is experimenting with the new space and deciding which display cases to order, Parsons says...
Wearing plaid dress shirts, sporting a salt-and-pepper beard and puffing away at a pipeful of Amphora, Solomon looks more like a refugee from a sculpture class than a central banker. In fact, he is. In the two years before taking up his Treasury Department post, Solomon spent full time chipping away at blocks of white oak or molding bronze in his suburban Washington studio. His style in sculpture is modern semiabstract, but in money politics his mode is classic conservative...