Word: garlanding
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...desire to imitate Greek statuary by fusing the Ideal with the Real translates into a high degree of abstraction in the physical details of his sculpture -- smooth limbs with no warts, wrinkles or blemishes, and elaborate transitions that lead your eye around the figure or the group. The garland of six linked arms in The Three Graces, the largest carving lent by the Hermitage, has just this rhythmical effect, and in its sense of continuous movement one sees why Canova, in his prime, was credited with inventing a new kind of beauty, Greek- based but original...
...last occasion in which I went to my mother's aid, when he was abusing my mother, he threatened to mash my face in if I took her part." Clinton not only forgot that event; he also forgot that he ever gave the deposition, now on file in the Garland Chancery Court...
...must have meant iconic. For what is a diva but a singer -- Callas in opera, Garland on the screen -- whose mission is to suffer, and to interpret suffering, for her faithful? Last we heard, Lennox was agreeably married, but that's not our business; besides, it's irrelevant to the authenticity of the pain in her strong and subtle alto pipes. What she has done in Diva is to marry that voice to a sheaf of memorable songs that map the doleful soul of a modern woman. This is angst for art's sake, something she can believe...
...show, Who Do You Trust?, Carson replaced Jack Paar as host of NBC's Tonight show on Oct. 1, 1962. His tenure on the program has lasted for two-thirds of the time that national TV has existed. He has hosted the show long enough to have had Judy Garland, Groucho Marx, Joan Crawford and Hubert Humphrey as guests. If Jay Leno lasts as long, he won't be leaving until the year...
...Colombo soldier who was shot in the head on the night of Nov. 24 while sitting in his red Lincoln Continental outside a Dunkin' Donuts shop. One Colombo associate, Vincent Fusaro, received season's greetings in the form of a bullet to his head as he hung a Christmas garland on the door of his Brooklyn home. Another wiseguy, a 79-year-old bookie, was blown away in broad daylight while playing cards at a social club; his 47-year-old girlfriend managed to walk away with a small chest wound...