Word: bric-a-brac
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...storm, he prays before his meal. His mother says he was always "very disciplined and God-fearing" - taking after her, of course. Her front garden features a coral-lined altar to the Virgin Mary, and an entire shelf in her living room is filled with icons and bric-a-brac in honor of Christ's mother. Dionisia wanted Manny to be a priest. Prayer reigns in his gym. "After each workout," says Giongco, "he requests a moment of silence where he prays, and then everything goes back to normal...
...past - Robert E. Lee's signed resignation to Lincoln, the badge of the policeman who was killed saving Truman's life, the same portraits that hung in the sitting room where the Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine were hammered out. Today it also contains furnishings and various bric-a-brac donated by House and Garden, General Electric, and Elizabeth Arden among others. During the Blair House's last facelift, Congress agreed only to pay for its structural improvements. For decorations and other such amenities, they refused to foot the bill...
...that transcends mere differences in language. Though the text can sometimes be confusing, what’s found there speaks to the great questions of human existence and reality.“No one writes poetry any longer,” Étienne writes, “bric-a-brac in an old hardware store.” While poetry is a commodity in our world, it is an organic creation, fundamental, “almost begging to be written” in Étienne’s. The poems in “King of a Hundred...
...friend, Nelly, while he finishes a book on Henry James and the uncanny. Nelly, an artist who lives and works in a disused Victorian textile mill called the Preserve, located in a postindustrial part of the city, fashions elusive, compelling works out of salvaged objects and bric-a-brac; they are concerned "with what was discarded and ephemeral yet caught in the tatters of memory." She also paints canvases, has them painstakingly photographed, then (supposedly) destroys the original works before mounting an exhibition of only the photographs...
...Sixty years ago, Oxfam pioneered the notion of raising cash by selling donated clothes and goods from charity shops. Now it has decided the concept needs tweaking. Most of Oxfam's 730 shops across the U.K. are slightly dowdy affairs, crammed with a wide variety of used clothes, bric-a-brac, books and CDs. But the Notting Hill shop - one of three in London recently reopened as high-fashion boutiques - looks downright chic, with polished dark-wood flooring, arty light fixtures, and top-brand ladies' wear displayed on stylish wrought-iron racks. The shop also sells brand-new fair-trade...