Word: candelabrum
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...Christmas or Hanukkah, Kwanzaa is not a religious holiday; the festival celebrates seven principles -- unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith -- assigned to each of the days. Observers gather each evening to light one of the candles in the kinara, a seven-cup candelabrum, and discuss how the principle of the day affects their life. Small gifts are often exchanged...
...trees are up, the holiday lights are ablaze in towns across the country, and this week menorah candles will be burning in many a storefront and city square to celebrate Hanukkah. But at two public buildings in Pittsburgh there will be no creche and no holiday candelabrum this year. The religious symbols have been snuffed out as a result of a federal court decision, now on appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court, that has reignited the battle between forces % insisting on strict separation of church and state and those pressing for greater accommodation...
...Bakker would have it, the coffers are nearly empty. There is no more maid service, and PTL is to cut off all money as of June. Even so, the house is still redolent of wealth: the shiny black Schaefer & Sons grand piano with a golden candelabrum on top, the Chinese porcelain tea service, the collection of figurines, the bodyguards and bustling assistants. If the Bakkers are running dry, it certainly doesn't show...
...romantic, as house proud and as appearance conscious as any of them. They envied his tightly curled hair, his industrial-size dimple, above all, his floor-length furs, sequined suits, neon-color satins and clusters of rings. They delighted, too, in his see-through glass-topped piano, his electric candelabrum that he brightened or dimmed by means of unseen controls, his houses (one decorated with a knockoff of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling), and other evidences of exuberant materialism that he celebrated in a Liberace Museum in, of course, Las Vegas...
From his first eminence in the early '50s as the rage of syndicated TV, Liberace was a vision out of a closet yet to be opened in mainstream show business. The silken singsong voice, the candelabrum, the welded dimples and fluty presence, the references to his sainted mother Frances, all made him a conversation piece, a figure of fun -- the Gorgeous George of mid-cult music. As Michael Herr observes in his new book The Big Room, "Never before, at least knowingly, had a man ever had the big steel balls to show himself like that, and on television...