Word: furred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pragmatic virtues are stressed in its latest incarnation, it retains its artistic values. New York's Museum of American Folk Art has just opened an exhibition of the more splendid examples. Among the items on display: an Inca hat, delicate macramé lace from 17th century Genoa, and fur rugs macraméd by Eskimos...
...picture had hung for years above the fireplace of a cottage in the Thames side village of Bray: a long-nosed, sallow ascetic with a scarred mouth, dressed in fur-trimmed doublet and dark scholar's cloak. A gold halo and inscription announce him to be St. Ivo, "the poor man's lawyer." Behind him, a window discloses silver water, trees, a farm, an arched bridge. The little panel (it measures 181 in. by 141 in.) had disappeared in the Middle Ages and reappeared late in the 19th century in the collection of the first Lord Newlands...
...house on the Côte d'Azur-and all at the same time. He need only raise a trap door before his hearth to loll in a red-tiled tub-for-two before a blazing fire, sipping a cup of something, while chatting with guests sitting on fur-covered sofas, and watching his pretty wife Simone whip up a delicious meal. The Jurgens farmhouse is one enormous room, designed for sybaritic simplicity against what Jurgens calls "the inevitable day when there'll be no domestic servants-even for the very rich." Outside, for a change of pace...
...stage at discreet intervals. In just that role Bob Guaraldi, as Alf the Red Retriever (remember Alph the sacred river in Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"?), could not be more ridiculous or more lovable. His costume alone is enough to do the trick: he sports long red underwear, a large fur coat, a bright red nose and great, comfortable-looking boots, the better to clomp with. Each character flirts with everyone else, but Alf manages to be the most open about it, sitting down beside May Wish and howling appealingly...
...past, about the worst the horses were known to suffer was poor teeth -too many sugar cubes from admiring children-and most reached the age of 20 before going to the slaughterhouse. But of late, said Löwenbräu's Heinz Moelter, "their fur lost its gloss, their eyes their shine, and their pulling power declined." Recently, Munich's local Animal Protection Society confirmed what the brewery had suspected. "They informed us that permitting the animals to continue working in Munich's poisonous atmosphere amounted to sheer cruelty," said Moelter. "Significantly, they didn...