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...another, the two volumes were not united until 1969, when the second part was donated to Italy's National Library in Florence. In beauty and inventiveness The Visconti Hours fully matches the more famed Duc de Berry's Book of Hours at Chantilly. Its gold embellishments gleam under a unique reddish glaze, its borders are endlessly inventive in incorporating the Duke's emblems with animals, flowers and armorials. If the whole does not seem as devotional an object as its possessors liked to profess, it is certainly something from the artifice of eternity that, in Yeats...
...texture of the prose less rich than in the novels, but by maintaining its peculiar notion. The Lost Ones creates a super-metaphor with a life of its own. Beckett's latest book looks at the world with intent, unshrinking understanding--and touches its expression with an uncertain gleam of the playful...
...impeccable, his mean mien expressive, his ruthless efficiency chilling. And his "moiety of the world" speech is a lesson in how to make the most of the extraordinary poetic diction that permeates this play. This is a gem of a performance--one that dazzles with the sharp and cold gleam of a sapphire. It is, simply, head and shoulders above every other performance in the show, and by itself worth a trip to behold...
Just when anticipation is keenest (Has the President fallen gravely ill? Has Brezhnev delivered a nuclear ultimatum? Has Agnew staged a coup d'etat?), Nixon emerges with a fistful of notes and a gleam in his eye. To an astonished public, he announces a bold, new, precedent-shattering program that will give the nation the "lift of a driving dream" he has talked about, even though much of it amounts to an ideological reversal of his past positions. Drawing on the best advice of a wide range of Americans-including, for openers, Jesse Jackson and Ralph Nader, Cesar Chavez...
...only for their athletic prowess but for their pectorals. Both are frequently required to shed their shirts and flex their chests. This provokes lustful cooings from any black women in the vicinity as well as envy and wrath from Whitey, who is generally a scrawny racist with a telltale gleam of madness...