Word: baldachin
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...rheumy eyes of a bloodhound, the jowls of a St. Bernard and a baldachin of white hair like that of an extraordinarily unkempt poodle. His face, reporters joked, looked as if it had been slept in. When he spoke, there issued forth a sesquipedalian vocabulary, diapasonal sounds like a Hammond organ in dense fog. His performances had a consciously archaic quality about them. He satirized fustian while indulging in it. His senatorial solemnity was a species of burlesque. He belonged in a Chautauqua rather than a McLuhan age, although he became a master of television performing. His manner, leavened...
Apostles' Bells. Gibberd hit upon the idea of placing a tower directly over the altar's baldachin (or canopy) and using it to light the cathedral because "it's all part of the same thing." To be sure, the idea of having a 2,000-ton tower suspended over space presented structural problems, but these, as Gibberd put it, can be solved "if you get a lot of chaps together with some real know-how." Prestressed concrete was used for the 16 radial buttresses, while the roof was prefabricated from huge slabs of concrete hauled into place...
David Hays' settings and lighting have risen to the challenge. Despite O'Neill's extravagant demands, there are no long waits between scenes. In one particularly ingenious solution, Kublai's arbor like baldachin is transformed before our eyes into theatre-high ship masts with full sail; the stage revolves while bathed by rippling spotlights, and we are on the high seas...
...cardinals-ranged on their thrones along the walls of the Sistine Chapel-in effect share the powers of the papacy. But from the moment the new Pope accepts his election, they revert to their usual status. To signify this fact, the cardinals tug heavy silken cords to drop the baldachin that hangs over each chair, leaving only the new Pope's throne covered. As the cardinals line up to kiss the Pope's slipper, knee and cheek, he faces for the first time the responsibilities that Monsignor Bacci defined...
PAUL'S NEW BALDACHIN AND HIGH ALTAR . . . WHICH STANDS IN FRONT OF SITE OF JESUS CHAPEL. YOUR CAPTION, "MODEL OF AMERICAN MEMORIAL CHAPEL," IS MISLEADING...