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Your delicious article reminded me of the old tale about a king who demanded that his subjects present him with a dish that would be simultaneously hot and cold in his mouth. Courtiers searched far and wide, and the dungeon was filled with those who failed to solve the riddle. The answer: a hot-fudge sundae...
...painter's eye for shaping scenes and a formidable arsenal of theatricality. He explodes one of his surprises at the very start of this revival. A thunderclap of organ music blasts through the house, sounding as though the seraphic tones of Bach had been mangled in some dungeon of the damned...
...take away from me!" she thought. "They had taken my dress, my shoes and stockings, and my comb, they had left me half naked and freezing, but this it was not in their power to take away, it was and remained mine. And I should survive even this dungeon...
...original work on the cathedral stopped in December 1941 because of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. But Architect Ralph Adams Cram left plans for the towers, which Bambridge now consults in a dungeon-like room under the bishop's office. "It's like a giant jigsaw puzzle," he explains, pottering around in a pair of tartan carpet slippers. Bambridge makes large drawings of the more complicated bits-perpendicular tracery, buttresses, gables, turrets and pinnacles. From the blueprints, he designs each stone individually on a numbered job card marked with height, width, length. There is also a scale...
...Winthrop's dungeon-like dining room; the place empties as the last trays are gathered up and stacked onto the dishwasher belt, and the women's basketball team should be arriving any minute, scrubbed and washed for dinner after a hard two-hour practice. Stay tuned, the circus is about to begin...