Word: conspectus
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...icily remote aristocrats, star actresses of theater-crazy Madrid, ordinary bulb-nosed wives, allegorical personifications of history, gap-jawed crones, alluring and cheeky majas, cute and not-so-cute whores, blond angels with diaphanous wings on the walls of the Church of San Antonio de la Florida--a conspectus, you might say, of every she-creature the eye could light on. And then, of course, there was the Queen, Maria Luisa, worn shapeless by 20 pregnancies, with her teeth as bad as George Washington's and her glowing arms, of which she was so irrationally proud that she forbade other...
...show isn't quite as good on icons of craft as one might wish. Its conspectus of ceramics is quite good, but it's weaker in furniture. There is a fine suite of low-slung Modernist furniture in gumwood designed by Rudolph Schindler in the 1930s for his unbuilt Shep House in Los Angeles, and a splendid 1908 sideboard with inlays of fruitwood, ebony and abalone shell by Greene & Greene, those Pasadena masters of the Arts and Crafts style. But it's hard to get much more than a hint of how much really good furniture was being made...
...show isn't quite as good on icons of craft as one might wish. Its conspectus of ceramics is quite good, but it's weaker in furniture. There is a fine suite of low-slung Modernist furniture in gumwood designed by Rudolph Schindler in the 1930s for his unbuilt Shep House in Los Angeles, and a splendid 1908 sideboard with inlays of fruitwood, ebony and abalone shell by Greene & Greene, those Pasadena masters of the Arts and Crafts style. But it's hard to get much more than a hint of how much really good furniture was being made...