Word: lintels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fitters as they drape dresses on live models. His new Manhattan establishment is identical in style and layout with his Paris shop. An old five-story private house at 32 East 67th Street, with a new, shining, white façade and MARCEL ROCHAS in deep blue over the lintel, it sits in a row of old brownstone apartments, like a blue-eyed blonde on a bench with pickaninnies. Inside is a big desk which no one, however pompous, may pass without presenting an invitation (issued this week only to socialites and nouveaux riches)-a barrier raised partly for swank...
...Piedras Negras, an expedition headed by Dr. J. Alden Mason of Philadelphia's University Museum found a rectangular limestone carving in high relief which showed plainly that the unknown sculptor had a sense of humor, at least of satiric portraiture. The block, 49 in. long, was called a lintel, although its scanty margins indicated that it was used not over a doorway but as a wall tablet. Parts of the carving were effaced, but by squeezing every available clue Miss M. Louise Baker, experienced archeological artist, was able to make a wash-drawing reconstruction of the original...
...lintel appears to depict a ceremonial harangue by a Mayan chieftain, sitting cross-legged on an altar and flanked by bowls of fruit. Artist Baker interprets the scene thus: The two standing figures at extreme left, paying no attention, are absorbed in their own argument, while the next man indignantly nudges one of them with his hip. The first seated figure on the left is delicately poking the back of the man in front to ask what is going on, and the latter is trying to see over the towering headdress of the fat man in front...
...Angel of Death, at the Passover, omitted those houses that showed no crimson palm-marks on the lintel, so do you pass by any shop window or advertisement that does not display the Blue Eagle...
...Franciscan cowled in black stooped under the lintel and strode into the chamber, followed by a waddling friar and--was it a dog? The Vagabond eyed the Beast fearfully, the hound-like body, the leathery gray hide maculate with patches of glinting hairs, the beak, the swinging pink teats, its ebon Veneficium of Amor between almond eyes. The Beast slunk to the hearth where the Franciscan had established himself comfortably. "Be thou not afraid," the Holy Man intoned softly. "We are of the World Spirit, to comfort such as thou." Further events the Vagabond shall never recall clearly...