Word: candelabra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while both Jorge and Viridiana are away from home, the lower orders rise up and breach the walls of privilege. Eager as rats they scatter through the house, squeaking and plundering, happy as fiends with a rich man's soul. Out come the linens and the candelabra, the rare wines, the cates and dainties, a whole lamb. Like dukes the poor pilgarlics sit them down to a palatial feast that rapidly degenerates into a gutter brawl. But the brawl is intended also as a rite, as the dissolution of a desiccated society in a Dionysian mystery. In the depths...
...gaming act. Crockford's was bought by an Old Harrovian entrepreneur, blond, beefy Tim Holland. 35, who brags of learning bridge when he was nine. He transformed the club's venerable second floor with $80,000 worth of silk damask wall coverings and 18th century candelabra, imported eight French croupiers and French-made plastic chips representing $1,500,000 (highest chip: $2,800) for four chemmy and eight poker tables. In return for a cut of the take. Businessman Holland persuaded foxy old Isidor Abbecassis. Le Touquet's casino czar, to preside over his remodeled Pandemonium. Since...
...company sells franchises to more than 300 dealers, who buy their equipment from United. The Hertz car-rental firm last year got into the act with three Chicago stores, and more planned. These two companies, as well as scores of independent dealers, can supply customers with anything from antique candelabra to concrete mixers...
...liberation of France in World War II six Nazis used its north tower as a snipers' nest. War and religious strife have broken the hands and heads of saints, smashed panes of irreplaceable glass. Even worse wreckers were the 19th century restorers who plastered the apse with inanities-candelabra that cast no light, bas-reliefs that conceal the beauties of the structure. Yet today Chartres again stands serene, outcropping grass and flowers, bathed within with blue and red and changing light. "This building is like bread. You have to bake it every day." says one stonemason of Chartres...