Word: intaglios
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...images depict a figure with a voluptuous body and a strong face, masculine in its features, emphasizing power. Representations from old coins, particularly rare Greek ones, have helped to identify Cleopatra in marble and limestone sculptures. So, too, did the tiniest item on display-a 1.3-cm blue glass intaglio bearing Cleopatra's profile in a more naturalistic Greek style...
Cohn chose to limit her study of black to prints because she believes the intensity of "blackness" in a carbon or intaglio print is substantially different from the more fragile writing inks and watercolor pigments. Also because prints are made from a single layer of black and tend to form an opaque, continuous surface, they project a constancy and immutability not found in drawing or painting...
WHERE DID MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH GO wrong? The retiring music director of Washington's National Symphony was one of America's cold war trophies, but his baton work has only rarely matched his peerless way with the cello. Consider a new Italian-issued CD (Intaglio) with Gennady Rozhdestvensky and the London ! Symphony, recorded in Carnegie Hall in 1967. Rostropovich sails through Tchaikovsky's Pezzo Capriccioso and digs into Prokofiev's Concertino, written for the cellist and completed by him after Prokofiev's death in 1953. But the glory of the recording is a magisterial reading of Elgar's Cello Concerto; Rostropovich...
Paper currency the world over is printed by a process known as intaglio, which forces the ink directly into the paper under heavy pressure and thereby makes counterfeiting difficult. This gives the currency a texture and feel that ordinary presses cannot easily duplicate. Unfortunately, no printing-press manufacturer in the U.S. makes an intaglio press of the sort the bureau wants, so it has turned to Britain, a nation with enormous experience in printing inflated currency, to custom-design a press...
...plan is complete down to some intricate details designed to avert cheating and frustrate would-be black marketeers. The ration coupons will be about a third the size of a dollar bill and, like currency, they will be printed by a difficult-to-counterfeit intaglio process. When a driver bought gas and handed over his coupons at the pump, he would have to sign his name and write his license-plate number on each one, so that they could not readily be reused. The coupons would be good for only 60 days, so that speculators would be discouraged from hoarding...