Word: cottas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...summer of 1995, she saw a town out of time: lovely Victorian, Italianate and clapboard houses with wraparound porches and flags fluttering in the breeze; a shopping district of three-story brick buildings anchored by a domed courthouse, a gabled hotel and the Murphy Theater, a brick-and-terra-cotta confection with a delightful Art Deco marquee. Dooley grabbed her husband's arm and cried, "This is it!" Wilmington seemed to be that "protected environment," she says, "where we could raise our kids in peace...
...chamber orchestra plays from the balcony behind the audience, directing attention to the sparsely furnished stage. The set consists of a wooden platform with a few copper colored and terra cotta vessels, a pair of bronze-like columns and a garden statue cherub...
Traditionally, cultures become more fascinated with the past as a millennium approaches, so this rush to scrap baseball history in favor of creature comforts is all the more disturbing. We can't get enough news about tombs discovered in Egypt and terra-cotta warriors unearthed in China, yet the good people of Boston now see the Green Monster in Fenway not as the Great Wall it is, but as some big slab of Sheetrock that can be transferred to a new site with better access, easier parking, more seats, and, oh yes, more corporate suites...
...Denver Archdiocese bid on a terra-cotta relief of the Annunciation. It was unsuccessful, but picked up two early oils for the seminary library. "Everybody can walk away with something. If you keep your wits and don't get carried away, you can do well," observed Robert Delaney, an antiques dealer, on his way to pick up a bronze sculpture by Denver artist Edgar Britton, for which he successfully bid $1,700. Art dealer Charles Angelucci, on his cellular phone to clients as he bid, exulted over a Thomas Sully family portrait that he bought for $3,000. That...
While Conley did display the breadth of his historical and archaeological knowledge with his allusion to the terra cotta army buried with a third century B.C.E. emperor near Xi'an, China, the imagery he used in his portrayal ironically combined this monument of ancient civilization with a stero typical Charlie Chan-type caricature of the Chinese face...