Word: bustingly
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...Scene is the most important office in University hall. A harried-looking dean, a friendly man of undetermined age, paces nervously back and forth. The audience should know immediately that something is on his mind. Huddled in a corner is his secretary and Epstein's bust of Amy Lowell...
This book has about as much in common with the run of historical novels as a Roman bust with Marilyn Monroe's. The novel deals with the turbulent second century, but French Author Yourcenar shuns sex and sadism, keeps the defenseless slave maidens in the background and the Saturnalia under control. She allows the sick and aging Emperor Hadrian, ruler of the Western world, to tell his own story in a letter to his 17-year-old adopted grandson, Marcus Aurelius. Hadrian enjoys a good orgy from time to time as much as the next Roman, and he practices...
Premature Napoleon. At last the Valle Trebba was worked out. The official archaeologists moved to other diggings, and the Comacchiesi were reduced to salting the tombs with non-ancient artifacts (including a bust of Napoleon) which they dug up with feigned delight and sold to gullible collectors. When even this poor commerce died, the Comacchiesi returned to catching eels...
...Perfect 36. Edna Chase herself was hardly elegant or beautiful. She got her job at 18, addressing envelopes for $10 a week-"a factotum, a kind of little widget, young, eager and ignorant. I think I was not an unattractive young woman . . . but the only permissible bust measurement, the perfect 36, I did not possess...
...using the money bags of the oil barons to support his demagogue pals . . ." Save for a few intent Followers in the front row, the score or so in the audience let their concentration lapse and their eyes drift from the speaker behind the chintz-covered table. A rough-hewn bust of Trotsky dominated one corner. Sleazy rattan blinds covered the high, narrow windows. Dusty, antique light fixtures shone dimly from the peeling ceiling...