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Packages can be shipped-and protected-in any language, too. These symbols instruct shippers and cargo handlers to "keep frozen" and "keep dry." Equally clear are labels that depict a broken goblet ("fragile"), a crossed-out hook ("use no hooks") and a package separated from the sun by a heavy diagonal line ("protect from heat...
...Just a goblet on a table...
Kerr's school is less Cordon Bleu than Folies-Bergere. On Julia Child's low-budget public TV series, the wine was faked with a mixture of water and Gravy Master. Graham guzzles the real stuff from a goblet throughout the program (in seeming violation of Article 3, Section 17 of the Broadcasters' Code). His other constant prop is an arch smirk. He prances onto the kitchen set the way Sugar Ray Robinson used to approach the ring, then pirouettes so that the tittering ladies in the studio audience can admire his costume du jour...
...Still Life with Banderilas," one of a series of muted-tone exercises almost indistinguishable from Picassos of the same period. Three still lifes, one of 1929, another 1939, and of 1941 show his developing interest. The first includes a lemon painted to look flat, while on an adjacent goblet, whose three-dimensionality is complicated by its transparency, is depicted by juxtaposed planes of light and dark. Here Braque is consciously playing with the eve and its perceptions of boundary, a theme in his work well traceable through the Block holdings...
...skinned trollop, throws a shiv after her as she dresses and steals away. Modesty's archfoe is Gabriel (Dirk Bogarde), a faggoty Edwardian fop who flounces around an op-art seaside castle that looks rather like marzipan. Under a lavender parasol, he sips bluish liquids from a huge goblet with a goldfish swimming in its depths, keeps languorous boys and a sadistic lady psychopath on the premises. "I am the villain of the piece, and I have to condemn you to death," he purrs to Modesty. To which she purrs back": "But I am the heroine...