Word: mosaicism
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...Parsifal Mosaic, Ludlum...
...Parsifal Mosaic, Ludlum...
...left his office each evening promptly at 5:30. Then, after having dinner with his wife, who is a truant officer for a local school in New Jersey, and studying some investment reports, he sat down and read a few pages of Robert Ludlum's bestseller The Parsifal Mosaic. After a day of million-dollar dealings, the world of double agents and Eastern European intrigue is a good escape...
...ever thus. Though a 3rd century A.D. Sicilian mosaic reveals an astonishing modern woman ? bikini-clad and sporting a pair of barbells ? women rarely exercised to keep themselves in shape or style. Too often they simply mutilated their bodies. For a thousand years Chinese women bound their feet so tightly that a natural "high heel" was formed, and toes were twisted irreversibly under the arch; African women used discs to form platypus lips; in Burma, tribeswomen encircled their necks with so many heavy metal rings that the vertebrae would separate. In the early 19th century, English fashion...
...Parsifal Mosaic, Ludlum...