Word: lintels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Friends say that Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul often talks in bis, a reference to the musical notation for "repeat phrase." But what could be mistaken for an affectation is actually a ritual of concentration that is performed on something as simple as the way a lintel rests on an ancient pillar or as complex as how the past weighs on the present...
...ancient block, which once adorned the temple entrance, has sat, almost unnoticed, at the institute since 1967. It bears an exquisite carving depicting the Hindu god Vishnu, who is said to have created the world from an ocean of milk. Thailand wants the lintel returned in time for the official unveiling of the restored temple in April...
DUCK YOU HEAD-LOWLA BRIDGIDA! reads the sign on a Grand Canal ponte, just before one of Friz Freleng's manic critters slams into the lintel at full frontal force. The warning applies also to those attending this compilation of old Warner Bros, cartoon shorts. Beware of low gags, supersonic mayhem, polka-dot undershorts and the occasional smack in the puss-Sylvester J. Pussycat, to be precise. There is much unfettered mirth here from the rest of the Warner menagerie: from Bugs, the Cagney of lagomorphs, who plays Galahad and slickshooter to the splenetic Yosemite...