Word: mosaic
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...must congratulate you on the color reproductions of the Sinai mosaic and the icons, but it was most irritating to me to see the name of my distinguished colleague, Professor George Forsyth, appear alongside the photo of the monastery as if he were a photographer. The scholarly enterprise is conducted jointly by Professor Forsyth and myself. Our responsibilities are so divided that Professor Forsyth, being an architectural historian, is in charge of the field work, while I am responsible for the publication of the scholarly results...
Weeds sprang up; the mosaic tiles began to crack and fall; paintings were stored. In time, art lovers persuaded the government to maintain the church as a national monument and "a milestone in modern religious architecture." Still the Catholic Church refused consecration...
...sphere covered with a thin metal skin. Out of it will protrude four paddlelike surfaces carried on branching supports and arranged in such a way that one of them will always face fairly accurately toward the sun. Both surfaces of the paddles will be covered with a mosaic of cells made of thin sheets of a photoelectric material (probably silicon) that turns sunlight into electricity. The paddles will be folded when the satellite is in the nose of its launching rocket and will snap into position as soon as it is spaceborne. The array of solar batteries is expected...
...fact, the heirs of impressionism deserve a better label than postimpressionism, with its overtone of depreciation. The greatest postimpressionist, Cézanne, turned the brilliant palette of impressionism into a kind of three-dimensional mosaic, a building material from which he built a new illusion of space. Bonnard, the other branch of the fork, transformed the same palette into poetry, spontaneous as breathing, modest and insidious as a dream...
Railway porters, French whores, ferocious Irish colonels, obsessed priests, poets, lovely girls and frustrated concert violinists loom up in the story and disappear. Each page of the book has its verbal delights, but it is doubtful if Cusack has made a true mosaic of his brilliant bits of colored stone...