Word: golds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tartars and the Lithuanians. Under Ivan III, its seat was Moscow and its heart the onion-domed fortress known as the Kremlin. Within this medieval city rose cathedrals and palaces teeming with frescos of Christian martyrs and luxuriant icons, such as that of the Archangel Michael, fiery with gold and transcendent with righteousness. The store of imperial riches has only increased with time. The Kremlin and Its Treasures (Rizzoli; 356 pages; $75) is a gilded album of Russian history recalled through the voluptuous chambers of the czars, the rococo throne of Catherine I and the spare, careful quarters...
...asked her mother, "Mommy, is it starting yet?" the curtain lifted. Large flakes of snow sunk to the stage where a chestnut seller, the epitome of a Victorian Christmas, was hawking his wares. Families and children paraded across the stage into the wings. The lights did not twinkle gold against soft blue-gray; the stage was just a stage, and all the dancers were players on it. The tree was nowhere to be seen...
...coach hasn't installed a couch at center ice. No, he doesn't have a translucent rock hanging from a gold chain ready to dangle in front of his players' faces...
Fans of Poet Robert W. Service know that despite the title, The Cremation of Sam McGee (Greenwillow; $13) is comic art. Some 80 years after the poem was composed, Painter Ted Harrison has complemented the work with bold and antic landscapes of the Yukon in the days of the gold rush. McGee, frozen over, demands, "I want you to swear that, foul or fair, you'll cremate my last remains." His listener agrees, only to find a surprise when he opens the furnace door. Sam is inside, burbling, "Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee, it's the first time...
...fields of Venus and the earth. This "slingshot" routing became necessary when NASA officials decided that the rocket originally scheduled to boost the craft from a shuttle cargo bay could pose a hazard; it was replaced with a safer solid-fuel booster. Another change in plans involved putting extra gold sheeting on the Galileo spacecraft because of the scheduled pass close to the superhot atmosphere of Venus...