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...document his theory, Dr. Ekholm exhibits a stone bas-relief from India's Amaravati period (about 200 A.D.). At the ends are beasts with fishlike bodies. Out of their mouths sprout lotus flowers, and lotus stems wind sinuously through the carvings...
Cries in the Dark. With night falling fast, the errant balloonist took stock of his situation. "The altimeter," he said later, "was the only instrument I had in the bas. ket. I looked in my pockets to see what else there might be. There was a pocketknife for opening beer bottles, a handkerchief and 1,650 Belgian francs. Nothing else." Bravely the bold aeronaut straightened the pink tie that hung across his cream-colored shirt. Belgium and the motorboat were fast disappearing in the gloaming to windward. As Holland's Walcheren Island coasted by, van der Straeten noticed...
Among the many newcomers was 41-year-old Sculptor Giacomo Manzu, who had executed a provocative bas-relief of the Crucifixion in which the traditional Roman legionary had been replaced by a gross and swaggering Nazi...
Whether a confession of prejudice is required or not, most laymen will probably go on preferring Nicholson's more representational paintings. His paper-thin, impeccably tasteful abstractions strike some onlookers as a game of solitaire played with illegible cards. And to them, his geometrical bas-reliefs look as blandly uncommunicative as a ouija board...
...left to catch our plane back to Peiping, the old man still sat at his desk fingering the poison vials. Above his head bas-relief characters in gold on a red background spelled out Yen's maxim: "I can be patient...