Word: bustedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fashionable Roman Sculptor Renato Signorini said that he had accepted a gilt-edged commission from Monaco's Prince Rainier: an 18-carat solid-gold bust of Princess Grace. Buckling down to three months of "very patient work," Signorini grandly measured the value of his work-to-be: "Priceless...
...unlikely gimcrack that for years has been the hottest-selling art object in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost big island, is the small plaster bust (price: $1) of a stern-faced New England schoolmaster who died in 1887. William Smith Clark stayed only eight months on Hokkaido, but the visit, in 1876, was long enough for him to be enshrined by the islanders as something between seer and saint. On leave from his job as president of Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the University of Massachusetts), Clark helped found the school that was to become the outpost island's pride...
...nearly bust a gut, I laughed so loud. But Girl in a Hole is more than mere airy persiflage. It is also a subtle and penetrating exploration, a discerning probing of the dark places of psyche and soul. The ballet sequence in which Alice acts out her desire to axe her mother and annex her father, and the tense scene in which she is forced to reveal the real causes for her fascination with rabbits, are among the most pulse-racing moments in the history of the theatre. The scene, by contrast, where Alice wakes up to see the familiar...
...Bust. In Denver, Pete McDonald bought space in the personals column of the Rocky Mountain News for a message: 'To my sponsors, friends and anyone else it may concern: I regret to state my climb of Pikes Peak on stilts has been temporarily delayed by a visit to the V.A. Hospital, Denver. However...
...Delhi, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru spied a familiar face (his own), happily gave the verdict on a wax bust molded by a local sculptress named Viramani: as good as anything he'd ever seen at London's famed Madame Tussaud's. After a minor touch-up job and correction of a faux pas-the plaque at the base of the bust added a year to Nehru's 69-the present from Sculptress Viramani goes on permanent display at his home...