Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prints from most of its vast departments, had even borrowed a few pieces from the advance-guard Museum of Modern Art. As a result, the show was a sort of digest version of the Met itself, and as it was all in one place, a little easier on the feet of the tourists who would be dropping in all summer...
...Antoine Houdon's 18th Century masterpiece, The Bather. A 20th Century example was the lie de France, a nude female torso by the late great Frenchman Aristide Maillol, who had gone so far as to imitate even the damages to classical sculpture by leaving off head, arms arid feet...
...picked Pablo Picasso's monumental oil, The Pipes of Pan, as a contemporary example of the Greek glorification of the body. Picasso's heavy-limbed athletes had the same solidity as sculpture, and for all their blank faces and lumpish hands & feet they seemed to glow with life and health. It was a safe bet that artists a century from now would still be learning from the Greeks...
...Then he put it together again, working in about a dozen of the 30 chips that the first man had left out. The added bits did not help much, but Axtell's colorless glue was a great improvement. Before, the breaks in the glass had been apparent several feet away; last week, with the urn again on exhibition in the British Museum, it took a sharp eye to detect the breaks...
...Twice he had to put her out of the room. After the first expulsion, he reports solemnly, she sulked at him for a week. After the second, she would have nothing to do with him-until three weeks later she recognized him in the yard, 50 feet away from the beehouse, and lit on the finger which had fed her. Says Dr. Shafer: "I felt as if I had been forgiven...