Word: hourglasses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wilde Talk. "You have the virtue of courage, my dear," explained the Hippodrome impresario who discovered her, "but in the theater one virtue has never been as handy as a couple of vices." And virtue was not her only handicap. In the day of the hourglass figure, Yvette was as bony as the Eiffel Tower, and, over all, decided Oscar Wilde, the ugliest woman in the world...
...movable limbs to fill their places at lights-out. One man stands watch at the cell door with a periscope fashioned from a toothbrush and a shard of mirror. A piece of a metal bunk serves as a digging tool. Two stolen medicine bottles filled with sand make an hourglass to time the long, seemingly hopeless task of chipping through concrete sewer walls and treacherous rock. On the afternoon of the last day before the escape, Gaspard is suddenly called to the warden's office. Two hours later he returns to the cells, insisting he has said nothing...
...eight mannequins are unique; each was constructed to fill her costume, and the silhouettes represented range from the shapelessness of the nineteen-twenties to the eighteenth-century hourglass. The mannequins wear contemporary accessories and are grouped against period scenery, such as Louisburg Square in the 1880's or a French interior...
...flowered slip, and collects kisses on demand, he begins talking the poor girl to death on the subject of the death of the individual. His mission, he proclaims, is to be a brutal predator in this world of sheep. Then Playwright Schisgal tips his plot upside down like an hourglass. Shortly, Gloria is chatterboxing Ben's ears with lists of suburban conformities: pulling crabgrass, going bowling, bed-hopping around. While they prate of the lack of communication among moderns, each spills a major grievance. Gloria's husband is an unread clod. Ben flunked a French exam that meant...
...hand on it; both Time and the parrot seem transfixed by it. All this attention, plus the globe, could only be explained, said the museum, if the female figure were Truth. She is supreme over the earth; she casts aside her rich garments as false vanities. Cupid's hourglass symbolizes the mortality of earthly love; the sun sheds Truth's light over the universe. And so the museum switched the title to Time Unveiling Truth...