Word: jades
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...book, the movie takes the trite and true prescription and flips it: boy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy loses girl. Harvard Jock Oliver Barrett IV digs Rhode Island Social Zero Jennifer Cavilled. His family disapproves. He defies them and marries her anyway. Whereupon fate−that inconstant jade−does the couple in. There has not been such a wrong-side-of-the-tracks meet since Holiday (1938), in which Gary Grant announced that he had worked his way through college, causing Katharine Hepburn's jillionaire father to harrumph mightily...
...pieces in the show (which is just finishing a four-week stand in Sacramento before moving on to San Diego) include an ancient Egyptian portrait statue in granite, a group of Chinese jade animals, a bronze rooster from the Guinea Coast of Africa, Renaissance statuettes, two wooden saints from 16th century Flanders and a 19th century neoclassical Italian marble Venus. None is too large to be held between two hands, and all were selected for the various textures of their surfaces...
...wedding night is spent in a bower on the edge of a clearing in the jungle, Merilee and Sam and Girl and Alfred surrounded by oleanders and watched over by the spirit of the jade-eyed jaguar and most of the children of Palenque, who hang like exotic globed fruit in the trees above them. Mean temperature 89 degrees Farenheit. During the consummation Merilee meows and meows. Alfred and Girl hardly blink, the jaguar is not surprised, but the children find it strange and wonderful the way gringos do it, and their curiosity is satisfied...
...been reversed in cases appealed by a percentage that is more than in per cent and more than twiec as high as the average district jade," he said...
...soar. In some respects, they have less to worry about than did fanciers of Art Nouveau. Because so many of its designs were originally intended for mass production, Art Deco has proved singularly easy to copy. Manhattan's fashion industry has already begun to produce chunky, silver-and-jade Art Deco earrings, belts and pins. Some of the best Art Deco can be enjoyed by any devotee, without cost, simply by contemplating the elevator doors, grilles and mailboxes of such structures as Manhattan's Chrysler Building...