Word: fantastical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University in Manhattan; its centerpiece is a set of 23 wash drawings for Piranesi's intended remodeling of San Giovanni in Laterano. These rare sketches cast a fresh light on the unique junction that Piranesi maintained between Baroque and Neoclassical architectural thought. But it is still Piranesi the fantast and archivist, the obsessed historian with a burin, who holds the eye today. His testament is some 2,000 elaborate prints of antiquities, buildings, real or imaginary, sculptures and details, which he published between 1748 and his death...
...have the audacity to put between quotation marks. " 'Now if I were Norman Mailer,' said the author of Portnoy's Complaint, 'I'd be up in the ring after the first bout, kicking away at the boxers in golf shoes.' " Whatever tin-eared fantast fed you that one should at least have told you to include in your story the fact that in Thailand the boxers fight principally with theii feet. As it stands, the quotation is not only predictably without any relation to fact, but somewhat lacking in point...