Word: brac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money it needs, one of the first exhibits to be spruced up will be the fading dresses once worn in the White House. Carefully fitted to wax dummies, the old clothes will be displayed in eight separate rooms, complete with White House mantelpieces, furniture and odd bric-a-brac. "Women," says Dr. A. Remington Kellogg, director of research, "deserve a fine setting...
Upstairs, miles of corridors, reception rooms, drawing rooms, anterooms, bedrooms, bathrooms were lined with paintings and stuffed with bric-a-brac. The music room, as big as a cathedral, housed all kinds of instruments, including an antediluvian phonograph and an organ. All the instruments were automatic. In the gymnasium were all sorts of exercise equipment, including an ingenious machine, made in Battle Creek, Mich., which was supposed (but signally failed) to keep the royal rump from becoming imperial. Farouk's study was a pornographer's paradise, hung with garish paintings and crammed with statuettes of nudes in attitudes...
...another 13 steps. Then the stairway ended at a solid wall. Behind it was another wall with a stone box set in it, and in the box were a piece of ceramic work, a big pearl, a collection of shells and several pieces of jade. This religious bric-a-brac encouraged Archaeologist Ruz. It hinted that something of importance to long-dead Mayan priests was hidden in the heart of the pyramid...
Last week, in his first London show in 15 years, Dali tried again with a crucifixion entitled Christ of St. John of the Cross. In his latest painting, Dali had cleared away most of the surrealist bric-a-brac, and contented himself with a spectacular downward view of Christ on the cross, suspended in dizzy midair above a placid seacoast...
...recalled having been "trapped" before-as a student at U.C.L.A., as a riveter, as principal of a depression-era relief night school. At Santa Barbara, however, he tried new ways to grow. He began going out nights and burglarizing big homes, specializing in rugs, lamps and other bric-a-brac. Last year he also settled down to an adventure in extramarital living with a San Francisco divorcee named Francine Schaefer...