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Every day she went down to the cypress tree, among the cactus grove ... She was wiser and subtler now, wearing only a dove-grey wrapper, and sandals. So that in an instant ... she was naked to the sun. (page...
...announced that he was preparing to graft new limbs on infantile-paralysis victims. Soon, he declared, he would show preliminary examples of similar radical grafts, including a goat with donkey's legs, a sheep with dog's legs, a chicken with a pigeon's head, a dove with rabbit's ears and a rabbit with dove's wings. No gonkey, shog, or picken turned up, but Lanza did give newsmen a brief, none-too-close look at what appeared to be a winged rabbit (see cut). He later announced that the rabbird was doing fine...
Only a magic charm can save Toto's flotsam. It comes in the form of a heavenly dove produced for Toto by the spirit of his doting foster mother. With the help of the magic dove, Toto holds the cops hilariously at bay, gives the clamorous poor whatever they want. The wishes of the poor are funny, pathetic, always vulnerably human and sometimes as shabby as the greedy designs of the caricatured plutocrat in plug hat and fur collar. Ultimately, the dove enables them to escape into the clouds on streetcleaners' brooms "to a kingdom where 'good...
Last week Belgian art lovers could breathe easy. The restored Lamb, back in place in Ghent's Cathedral of St. Bavon, looked better than it had for centuries. Long-obscured flowers sprouted from the grass, the grey clouds that once hovered about the holy dove had become a rain-bow-hued nimbus, and a lovingly detailed background landscape emerged clearly from the greenish-brown mist of generations. Everywhere, colors brightened to the rich blues, yellows and reds the Van Eycks had originally painted...
...word got around, crowds streamed into the Crystal Palace to see the painting. Sanchez Bella, organizer of the Biennale, tried to look pleased. Said he: "At the Biennale we even have Picasso's Soviet dove." Said Artist Perceval, sweating, after a long talk with the police: "The dove is not Soviet. It is just a poor little dove who lives in the patio of my home...