Word: embellish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ulysses-tarried among the Lotus Eaters; the brooding Lake Avernus in Italy, where he descended into the Underworld; the bay of Port Vathy, where at last the voyage ended on the sands of home. Lessing has overburdened his superb pictures with too much borrowed text. The Homeric passages that embellish the pictures would have sufficed...
Calder began rebuilding toys for himself when he was eight. He would embellish them with a snippet of wire here and there, sometimes to give them more motion. From then on, a pair of pliers became his tool to remake the world...
...Guilty affects to study the elusive nature of truth and justice, but it is really just a peep show with pretensions. Tony Perkins, cast as an artist-composer-jailbird, speaks French in this melodrama directed by Andre Cayatte (Tomorrow Is My Turn). He does little else to embellish this unsavory little film...
Parted Lips. Though he was well-steeped in the classical tradition of sculpture that ennobles the sitter's profile, Houdon was incapable of flattery. He did not spare the pockmarks on the face of French Revolutionary Mirabeau, or embellish the vapid looks of the young Lafayette, or face-lift the homely dewlap of Ben Franklin. The result is that the popular likenesses today of some of the greatest men of the revolutionary periods in France and America started with the passionately accurate chisel of Houdon. Now on view at Massachusetts' Worcester Art Museum...
...Rossi rarely slumps. A tricky left-hander who effectively uses curves and change-ups to embellish his fast ball, he has struck out 65 this year in 73 1/3 innings, and maintained a 2.20 ERA. Should a Yalie reach first, watch Del Rossi closely for his pick-off play, thought by many to be better than that of most major leaguers...