Word: candelabra
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...longer fall down side walk gratings or get left behind in telephone booths (what woman leaves a regular earring on her telephone ear while calling?). Moreover, they argue - with some reason - that pierced earrings are by far the most attractive ones available. Fanciest are the ethereal antique candelabra and gypsy gewgaws, but most popular are the simple gold, pearl or jade "buttons" - perhaps be cause they do not catch on sweaters...
Inside, she regained her composure. Symphony Conductor Erich Leinsdorf gallantly kissed her hand as she entered, and she chatted comfortably at the dinner table with him and Henry Cabot, board president of the symphony. Amid the dimly lit candelabra and the red-globed lamps of the Edwardian decor, sweating photographers dashed about popping dozens of flashbulbs at her, occasionally overturning chairs and breaking wine glasses. The guests-from Boston grandes dames to college boys-gaped openly at Jackie, but she seemed unperturbed. Dinner was surprisingly good for such an affair: lobster, veal, braised endive and soufflé glacé. Jackie...
...diamond rings with the women. "My stones aren't as big," he conceded, "but then I didn't have to do anything to get mine." More gales of laughter and murmurs of "Isn't he cute?" But no one laughed when he sat down to the candelabra-lit piano with its plexiglass top and played "all the Gershwin I know" and "the music of the world's great masters...
...this is fun, and it snowed some European critics. But to American audiences, sated with TV spectaculars and such, Laterna is scarcely magika. Its taste is dated and decadent. The spectator sees with sad surprise that Hoffmann's masks and mirrors, carriages and candelabra are no longer considered arty by the Party. What's more, the show attempts too many things at once and too few of them really fit together. The actors on the screen, for instance, continually steal scenes from the actors on the stage-they are bigger, brighter, louder. As a result, the spectator...
...just as the Council of Trent was ending, and for 21 years the walls rose to bear out in architecture the spirit of the Counter Reformation begun at the council. To the little town of El Escorial (meaning slag heaps, from the nearby iron furnaces) came bronzes from Milan, candelabra from Flanders, rare woods from the New World. Philip personally supervised the work from a stone seat overlooking the site two miles away. He raised laborers by national levies, and many saw in the macabre plan of the monastery a visible proof of his will to burn alive all heretics...