Word: angeli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ANGéLIQUE (890 pp.) -Sergeanne Golon-Llpplncoff...
Once upon a time, in the dank and gloomy castle of Monteloup in old Poitou, there lived an impecunious baron and his daughter Angélique, a wild and barefoot sprite who played, perhaps more than she should, with the peasant boy Nicholas. Looking to Angélique's beauty to save him from ruin, the baron betrothed her to the Comte de Peyrac de Morens, known as the Great Lame Devil of Languedoc, who was said to be so ugly that girls ran away when he passed by on his great black horse. As it turned out. Ang...
There she lived with beggars, cutthroats, cutpurses, dwarfs and cripples, including the leering, one-eyed gangleader Calembredaine, who had a "nightmare face, blurred by long strands of greasy hair [and] marked by a violet wen.'' It was Calembredaine who in a frightful brawl won Angélique as his mistress and carried her unconscious to his lair. When Calembredaine tore off wig and wen, who should he be but Nicholas, the ever-loving peasant friend from old Poitou...
...Time. Brown has given Los Angeles museumgoers a taste of the excitement a hard-driving director can give art. By originating such outstanding shows as T'ang Dynasty Art (TIME, Jan. 14, 1957), Brown has put Los Angeles back into the big time, has just staged the U.S.'s most comprehensive Degas show in two decades. One of Ric Brown's few misses was the Edward G. Robinson collection. Brown rounded up $2,500,000 to buy it, only to have Greek Shipowner Stavros Niarchos raise the bid to more than $3,000,000 (TIME. March...
...Jade Mountain, an anthology of T'ang Dynasty poetry, translated by Poet Bynner from the texts of Kiang Kang...