Word: lacquerer
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...better herds, which the Falqani do not want. Throughout his country, Ghazan seems to see only a bizarre blend of ancient Eastern evils and too-hasty Westernization-hunger and corruption, opium smokers in grey flannel suits, profiteering officials who "displayed the refrigerator in their drawing room like a Chinese lacquer cabinet...
...bladed knife. Ultraviolet examination had shown that Golden Boy had already undergone an operation, and Fuller cut along the old, virtually imperceptible scar.* He cut carefully through a top layer of paint (probably put on 700 or 800 years ago), then through a layer of gesso, a layer of lacquer, one of bronze and finally of the statue's original gold. After 30 minutes he lifted out a 2-in.-by-4-in. rectangular section of the boy's back and poked inside with a pair of tongs...
Today the best of the old imperial collections reposes safely at Peikou, a rural hideaway in the central foothills of Formosa. There, stacked in three concrete warehouses and a large tunnel, are nearly 400,000 art objects-paintings, ancient bronzes, porcelains, gold plate, lacquer and jade. Many of the objects have been in packing cases since they were first hurriedly put away in 1934, when the Japanese armies approached Peking. Most have never been seen outside China. Now, with the opening of a small museum in Peikou, Chinese art lovers have their first chance in a generation...
...Billy the Kid Hummel hurled the lacquer thinner and match? No one seemed to care; it was enough that Hudson was dead. He had created so much hatred that Prisoner Ralph Bowman feared for his own life at the hands of other convicts because he had used a fire extinguisher in trying to save Jim Hudson...
...November day. Hudson sat quietly in his cell, eating off a tray. Other prisoners were lining up in the corridor outside, almost ready for the march to the mess hall. Suddenly, through the iron bars of Hudson's door came a soaking spray of lacquer thinner, followed by a lighted match. The cell exploded in flame, searing through 25 coats of paint on the wall, melting an overhead electric light-and sending Jim Hudson, afire, shrieking in agony, to rage at the bars that held him in. He lived long enough to whisper a name: "Will Hummel...