Word: artful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prizes ranged backward to an Egyptian diadem and forward to an Art Nouveau silver clip. But his heart was closest to the Renaissance and the lovingly fashioned objects it produced. A brilliantly enameled South German panel, dated circa 1530, that vividly portrays Christ being mocked on the road to Calvary, was either part of a pax, to be used by priests during the Mass, or else decorated a reliquary in a church or a monastery...
None of the religious baubles designed to be worn are signed. Jewelry has always been regarded as craft rather than art. Even countries of origin are sometimes difficult to tell. From the mid-16th century onward, pattern books were published showing the latest styles in jewelry, and workshops serving kings and dukes in every country copied one another. In addition, rival princelings lured master craftsmen from each other's shops. It is often easy to see why. The Italian craftsman who intaglio-cut the crucified Christ in rock crystal on one classically simple 16th century pectoral cross incised each...
...Oblivion. Joni seriously took up music only five years ago. A native of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, she casually began playing the ukulele at 20, while an art student at Calgary, and drifted into folk music. In Toronto, she worked as a salesgirl to earn the $140 union fee so that she could perform in city cafes. Success was still out of sight when she met, married and eventually was divorced from a folk singer named Chuck Mitchell in Detroit. Meanwhile she had taken the first step out of oblivion by starting to write her own folk-styled songs...
...art of taxation," observed Jean Baptiste Colbert, France's controller general of finance under Louis XIV, "consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least amount of hissing." Three centuries after Colbert's cynical appraisal, the contemporary American taxpayer feels thoroughly plucked-and he is hissing louder than ever. Now the ides of April are approaching-the deadline for filing is the 15th of this month-and the resentment of taxpayers points increasingly toward a ballot-box revolt. In a spontaneous outpouring of popular indignation, citizens by the thousands have...
...Smart's Jeoffrey. He had enduring friends, including Tennyson and a man called Chichester Fortescue, a real name that sounds like a Lear invention. Lear's peregrinations over 30 years ranged from Calais to the coast of Coromandel, a course which enabled him to work at his art-essentially the trade of providing souvenirs of the Grand Tour to a pre-Leica...