Word: apricot
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...marble becomes a public conversation between two old friends. This is appropriate, considering how deeply embedded Moore's work is in the Italian tradition of monumental form. To see his largest piece, the 18-foot high, 170-ton Square Form with Cut, 1969-70, against Brunelleschi's apricot-colored dome of Santa Maria del Fiore is to realize how completely Moore has conquered the problems of architectonic scale, and how little the basic forms that satisfy the desire for "monumentality" have changed in the intervening 600 years. To Moore, who first visited Florence on a traveling scholarship...
Next time you eat an apricot, take a good look at the pit. This seed, along with seeds of many other fruits, contains a chemical which has been described as "an ideal anti-cancer drug...
...occur when Bumper sits down to consume one of the Lucullan meals he regularly cadges. Wambaugh's feeling for food is almost erotic. Thus as Bumper takes dessert in an Arab restaurant: "I scooped up a mouthful and let it lay there on my tongue, tasting the sweet apricot and lemon rind, and remembering how Yasser's wife, Yasmine, blended the apricot and lemon rind and sugar, and folded the apricot puree into the whipped cream before it was chilled...
...beginning is deceptively idyllic. An American writer with the initials A.C. moves into a little, apricot colored house overlooking the town of San Basilio. She intends to research a study of the near medieval lives of contemporary southern Italian women, but she soon gets far more than she asks for. Her friend Marina, a schoolteacher, turns out to have been the secret mistress of the previous occupant of the apricot house: Marco Santoro, a gifted teacher and that anomaly in San Basilio, "a hopeful...
Martha Mitchell, wife of the noted attorney general, was resplendent in a mass of apricot and white frills with a yellow umbrella...