Word: bric-a-brac
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...shopping for bric-a-brac they developed techniques by which they now buy clothes for Truc, their most successful enterprise. They buy in small batches, from a dozen little stores in New York and California, and strictly according to their own tastes...
...embossed beer tankards, a Greek vase collection, a marble mountain nymph by a local artist (now in a university library and known to undergraduates as "the White Rock Girl"). Then, in 1945, Curator Horst W. Janson, aided by a committee, weeded out 125 paintings and 500 pieces of bric-a-brac, auctioned off the lot for $40,000. The money was used to purchase 28 paintings, sculptures, collages and tapestries by Picasso, Braque, Moore, Stuart Davis, Klee, William Baziotes and other French and American moderns. Janson's selections are today valued at more than...
...almost cathedral hush was induced by a full-scale retrospective display of the work of Sculptor Louise Nevelson. Awed spectators moved from darkened room to darkened room, observing Nevelson's monumental spotlighted pillars and walls built of orange crates, dowels, spindles and other bits of wooden bric-a-brac but sprayed either all black, all white or all gold. America-Dawn, a multi-totemed white creation, looms like a silent convocation of sentinels. Tropical Rain Forest hangs from the walls and ceiling of an entirely blackened corridor, inviting the visitor to stroll through the secret splendor...
...Bethell says, and most of the changes in the Bulletin this fall reflect his passion for making it readable. The cover has been jazzed up with the addition of banner headlines to entice readers to articles inside. More and more the Bulletin has assumed a recognizable organization, as bric-a-brac like letters and book reviews appear issue after issue in the same part of the magazine. Bethell has added humorous pictures and a news-style headline to give the traditional sports column (always about two weeks behind) an illusion of being up to the minute...
Hill can needle too, and he does it with an admirably straight face. Under his wry direction, John Neville and Donald Houston play Holmes and Watson with a quaint and slightly stilted charm that defines them as exactly what they are: impressive pieces of Victorian bric-a-brac. Houston gustily presents the doctor as a tintype of the ruddy regimental; Neville dryly displays the detective as a standard Victorian eccentric, an intellectual who beneath a mask of pedantry conceals a sad little secret: he is really just a middle-class boy who never quite made Eton and never quite...