Word: mantels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later-day subjects none inspired better work than the giant seashell his wife brought as a souvenir of her birthplace, and kept on the white-marble fireplace mantel of their quiet Paris apartment. Fascinated by the shell, Redon used it as the starting point for a motif as old as antiquity. His Birth of Venus is a subject that has inspired artists from the time of the Greeks to Botticelli. Redon painted it as something glimpsed deep in the sea or seen fleetingly but unforgettably in a dream...
Faced with that threat, Lieutenant Governor Harold W. Handley, Jenner's key lieutenant in Indiana, decided that he would issue an ultimatum of his own. He had an antique mantel clock placed on his desk at the front of the senate chamber and announced that he was going to end the session exactly at midnight on the 61st day. If no budget bill had been passed and the Craig administration had no money, that would be just...
...Face-Saving Cream." Finally, at five minutes before midnight, Lieutenant Governor Handley backed down, turned the mantel clock around so that it faced him; he then stopped the senate's official electric clock. As the overtime hours wore on, the conference committee members wearied of the stalemate, and the Jenner legislators finally capitulated: they agreed to accept a compromise provision that no state funds could be spent on roads that would serve "only" as feeders for toll roads. This was such a minor limitation that jubilant Craig men talked of sending down to the drugstore to get some "face...
Never a star athlete, Case showed his prowess in offbeat competitions. He won a prune-eating contest at a Y.M.C.A. summer camp. And on his library mantel is a cup given him for winning a heel-and-toe walking race at a fair near Poughkeepsie in 1921. He had entered the contest because he considered it a "real challenge": the only other man in the race was a postman. At Rutgers (where he was Phi Beta Kappa), he was an attack man on the varsity lacrosse team, and he has a broken nose to show...
Animals on the Mantel. The apartment where Artist Statsinger conducts her own explorations, near Chicago's crime-blighted Midway, is painted dead white. The low, simple furniture is her own handiwork, and her clothes closet is crammed with carpentry tools. Ranged along the hearth and mantel are geometric little "animals" which she makes of papier-mãché and wire for relaxation...