Word: handiwork
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...Cinderella question was whether the 26-in.-high polychromed bust of a young woman holding primroses was the handiwork of one of Italy's most famous Renaissance masters. Back in 1920, Art Dealer Edward Fowles had thought so when he purchased it in Rome for upward of $40,000. Considered to be the original for a marble in the Bargello museum, the bust was then attributed to Andrea del Verrocchio or possibly his pupil, Leonardo da Vinci, by the Bargello's director and the late connoisseur Wilhelm von Bode...
...Festival singing the lead role in Hindemith's rarely performed Cardillac. Premiered in 1926, the opera -a starkly sketched exercise in early expressionism-is hardly everyone's cup of tea. Yet as interpreted by Director Rudolf Hartmann and Fischer-Dieskau, cast as a goldsmith who peddles his handiwork by day only to redeem it at night by killing off his customers, Cardillac proved the surprise hit of the month-long festival. Stable Serenade. At 40, Fischer-Dieskau is a comparative newcomer to the world's opera houses. Long the foremost interpreter of German lieder, he only recently...
...exhilaration he felt as a British agent during the war. There is something almost perverse about his zeal for the mission. And his skills are so rusty that East German security men, locking onto his radio transmissions, are mystified by what they think, at first, must be the handiwork of an amateur...
...dealer, the society's hundred dues-paying sympathizers rally wherever the wrecker's ball threatens. Favorite salvage is the architectural ornamentation carved by unknown immigrant European stonemasons who embellished New York's great turn-of-the-century construction boom. On occasion, however, it is the handiwork of a not-so-anonymous Stanford White or Louis Sullivan...
...hearth? I shall not resort to the statistics on Harvard-Radcliffe marriages. Surely we, the paragons of the cranially ovoid female do not deny the effects of home environment. Back in the boondocks of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Brooklyn it is considered impolite to sneer at mommy's handiwork. We who hail from these parts of the frontier learned early on that we would do well to emulate her. Let us face the brutal truth together, we are not all the daughters of math PhDs, senators, professional historians, and queens...