Word: bustingly
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...rigging the contest to call attention to East Germany's refugee problem: "It fitted wonderfully-an East Zone girl who 'chose freedom' and is beautiful, too." In East Germany, Marlene had been respected as an engineer, cried Young World indignantly, while in the West only her bust, waist and hips (36½-23-36) won admiration. And anyway, the newspaper warned Marlene, "You will only reign one year until the next contest...
...James Monroe, Martin Van Buren, Daniel Webster and Abraham Lincoln. While rummaging through a London antique shop, a committee member found some period wallpaper decorated with Revolutionary War scenes; it will be used to paper Jackie's private dining room. Mrs. Albert Lasker gave the committee a marble bust of George Washington, and a jowly, side-burned bust of Martin Van Buren was discovered in storage. Treasury Secretary and Mrs. Douglas Dillon chipped in with a roomful of Empire furniture including a mahogany library table and an anonymous source lent a Samuel F. B. Morse portrait of Revolutionary...
From Flaubert, whose bust he used to salute while crossing the Luxembourg Gardens to his Montparnasse flat, Hemingway learned precision, the right word in the right place. But there is an emotional intensity in a random Hemingway sentence that the teachers do not account for and the imitators and parodists never capture. The effect of "In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels" depends on a special quality of vision. Everything in Hemingway is seen as it might...
...Mike put up a trading post at Ehrenberg, a riverside site he named for a family friend. Mike opened a bigger store in Phoenix in 1870, sold out to establish another in Prescott; at one time or another, there have been Goldwater trading posts in such boom-or-bust settlements as Tombstone, Seymour and Bisbee, where the town's first lynch mob stopped at Mike's emporium to borrow a suitable length of rope. He retired to California in 1885, leaving the stores to his three sons, Morris, Henry and Baron...
...Child by the Venetian master Carlo Crivelli to works, mostly portraits, by Hans Holbein the Younger, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Frans Hals, Jean Honoré Fragonard, George Romney and Thomas Gainsborough. In money terms, the prize of the lot was one of the three Rembrandts: Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer. Commissioned in 1653 by a Sicilian nobleman named Don Antonio Ruffo, it was one of the finest masterpieces in any private collection...