Word: habsburgian
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...after all, that weird guy who did those soup cans a quarter of a century (was it really that long?) ago. The working-class hero, son of an immigrant Czech coal miner named Warhola in Pittsburgh, who for a time acquired a court that seemed almost Habsburgian in scope if not in distinction: the Velazquez dwarfs of the Factory. The guy in the photo with Madonna, Liza, Jackie O. The aesthete who said money was the most important thing in his life and in the future everyone would be famous for 15 minutes, thus offering a tacky sort of transcendence...
...officials. The women bricklayers (bottom left) are putting up a new building on Gorky Street, one of the best-looking thoroughfares in downtown Moscow. Here & there through the rising new city there remain impressive glimpses of old Moscow: Byzantine Red Square (top right) and Sverdlov Square with its Habsburgian accents (bottom, right) are monuments of the Czarist regime...
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