Word: cosmorama
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...British longshoreman blew 192 smoke rings from a single cigarette puff. A civil servant played his accordion nonstop for 26 hours and 20 minutes. One 15-year-old gulped down 19 pickled onions in two minutes. They were all contestants in Cosmorama, a Screwball Olympics held in Lingfield, England, where the equivalent of a gold was winning an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records. The show's Bruce Jenner was Tory Roy Hatter, 25, vice chairman of the Young Conservatives and new holder of the world record for nonstop political speeches...
Mario Prassinos' large (79 in. by 99 in.) Winter and Mathieu Mategot's Cosmorama (86 in. by 161 in.) would brighten any bare modern wall. Purists argue that translation from painted sketch to woven wool muffles the impact of the artist's intent. Certainly, tapestry has rarely been a medium for great art. But for works short of the greatest, tapestries have a disarming informality, and a richness of warp and weft that compensates for the loss of the immediacy that only the artist's brush can give...
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