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...exterior appealed to Mies because "it is a very noble material and lasts forever if it is used in the right way." Expected to weather to a darker shade, except where the wind scours the edges bright, the bronze will be hand-wiped from top to bottom with lemon oil whenever it gets blotchy...
...fact that the space pup changed names with almost every orbit. The New York Times, which devoted a special inside column to the tales of wags, at first identified it as Kudryavka. a female name meaning Curly. The Times then decided the dog was a male named Limonchik (Little Lemon). Even in Moscow, reported a Baltimore Sun correspondent, an economics journal called the dog Malyshka, while Evening Moscow claimed that its real name was Zhuchka. Most papers finally agreed that sputpup was a female named Laika after its breed. But, though they use the word regularly in covering dog shows...
...householder): My set seems to require more service than my neighbor's. Did I buy a lemon...
...less formal, for Neapolitans consider their patron almost a member of the family. "Come on, guappone [Neapolitan for hoodlum] . . . Cheer up, don't look so green around the gills . . ." Back in the sweating, shoving crowd a man waved a ragged arm, shouted: "Come on, yellow face, come on, lemon face!" At 9:28 the dark substance in one of the slowly turning vials began to slide along the glass, then dissolved and spurted about the container. "Miracolo! Miracolo!" cried a man in the crowd...
Indignantly denying an insinuation that she is 83, Dancer Ruth St. Denis, who will give a series of dance recitals in Manhattan this week, threw a diaphanous lemon-yellow chiffon robe about her once-famed figure, went into a couple of emotive poses (contrition, supplication), announced...