Word: ornamentally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discovered that he had extracted these diamonds from doomed Jews in return for granting them their freedom, and then had dispatched them to their deaths. And what if you also knew that this seemingly benign old gentleman is armed with a foot long knife, hidden in a metal wrist ornament, which he is capable of flicking out and slitting someone's throat with in a matter of seconds...
...Lois Rosenberg and Francine Figie prove, in three short and beautifully executed pieces, that ballet is no drawing-room accomplishment. This pared-down movement breaks through any porcelain figurines of cliche. There are no imposed theatrics in the performance; costumes are kept to a bare minimum; lights illuminate, not ornament...
...gives me great pleasure to introduce a man who is such a great ornament to the history department at my university, which is also the Ambassador's alma mater...
...leap, broke his arm and returned 45 minutes later waving his cast and demanding "Now will you jump?" Felsenstein retained his Austrian citizenship and commuted daily from his home in West Berlin to the East, where he turned the Komische Oper into the Communist regime's leading cultural ornament...
...occupation) a god. Nevertheless, it is rare to encounter an object as preposterous in its Last-Supper-carved-on-a-peachstone virtuosity as the dancer in full samurai armor chiseled by Unno Shōmin, a late19th century court artist. It is less a sculpture than a mantelpiece ornament...