Word: bowls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days, living in one of the small hotels that crowd the city. Again and again he visited the Kaaba, the small cubic building that houses the sacred Black Stone-the center of the earth for Moslems. Guided by his mutawwif, Ahmed queued up to put his head in the bowl-like enclosure to kiss the Black Stone, worn away by the lips of pilgrims, and added his kiss to the kisses of centuries. He made his seven counterclockwise turns around the Kaaba, three times running and four times walking...
...attraction of this strongly appealing book lies not so much in the plot as in the author's passion for the city. Rome, says Belgian Novelist Curvers, is "like a woman lying in a shallow bowl of marble who, leaning now on one elbow, now on the other, constantly lifts one hand toward the blue bowl of the sky." Since that hand holds offerings-the offerings of art-the book also contains more genuine insights into art than a shelf of criticism. Of the Sistine Chapel: "Poor Michelangelo-to have been put to so undignified and superhuman a task...
Artzy's Bowl...
...antique dealer and longtime advocate of mutual funds, I wondered whose good taste was responsible for using what looks like an old Staffordshire sugar bowl on June 1 cover. If it belongs to Artist Artzybasheff, I'd like...
...sugar bowl is indeed a Staffordshire (see cut). It is part of a 20-piece tea set given to the late Mrs. Artzy-basheff's great-grandmother as a wedding gift. The set survived three ownerships and remained intact until the Artzybasheffs moved from New York City to Connecticut when one cup was broken. If Dealer Hartman has a matching cup, Artist Artzybasheff would like...