Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eyed Singer Tammy Grimes sounded wonderful-no mean accomplishment in the cramped quarters of Julius Monk's Downstairs at the Upstairs, a crowded Manhattan nightclub where the man who moves may catch his neighbor's elbow in his ear or his companion's highball in his lap...
...chair, with her back supported . . . She is turned slightly to the right with what appears to be a heavy, slow movement. [She has] matronly outlines that would not be expected in a 24-year-old Florentine model, and there is a heavy, vertical falling of the dress into her lap, suggesting pregnancy." As for the artist's approach, Da Vinci is known to have been fascinated by the phenomena of creation and procreation. The portrait's primeval background, said Dr. Keele, represents the Creation. Coupling this conclusion with what he believes to have been La Gioconda...
Diet Supplement. In Brisbane, Australia, Constance Toerkel won a divorce after testifying that her husband had eaten all the meals she set before him with a gun across his lap...
Capote dramatizes his conversation with elaborate hand gestures. He has a deft trick of touching his tongue, presumably for loose tobacco ("I never smoke those filter-tips; nothing comes through"), and then touching his fingers lightly on a napkin in his lap. He has a high nervous laugh when excited about something, and postures his head in a series of attentive or thoughtful attitudes...
...York Graphic; $22.50) also suffers from a certain stuffiness of text, but its 44 big color plates are little short of perfection, do much to bring the Byzantine marvels of St. Mark's Cathedral down from the shadowy vaulted ceilings into the reader's lap. Many a tourist has stopped in Venice and visited its cathedral without ever dreaming that he stood at the heart of one of Byzantium's finest offshoots. This book should send him back once more...