Word: ornamenting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ornament Vietnam's spring with everlasting beauty...
David Brown's role as the Prince suffers from the usual handicaps of male leads in traditional ballet--most of the time he was little more than a supportive ornament to his ballerina, sort of a graceful coat-rack. That is no excuse for laziness, however, especially during his own solos. Brown has considerable strength, but instead of the effortlessness of the great dancer he moved with an air of nonchalance, as though it really wasn't worth his while to exert much energy or to smooth out the rough edges in his technique...
Nonetheless, the works conquer their unfortunate setting. There was never more heroic ornament than the exhibition's massive early Christian torques, with their thick bosses and twisted gold flanges. And it is impossible to imagine a greater virtuosity of technique than the minutely elaborate gold-wire filigree of treasures like the 8th century Tara brooch, or the magnificently precise inlaying, chasing and enameling of the silver Ardagh chalice...
...Middle East diplomacy so soon; after all, the Nixon-Kissinger policy had been to curb sharply Soviet influence in the region. But Kissinger himself has noted that Moscow would have to be brought back into the arena eventually. Says a State Department official: "The Soviets are not an ornament in the Middle East. We simply cannot reconvene Geneva without one of the co-chairmen." If Geneva collapses or is never reconvened at all, critics of the Administration will undoubtedly argue that the Russians will have won diplomatic re-entry into the Middle East, and for nothing...
...Thracians were a tall, gray-eyed, fair race, renowned mercenaries in Homer's time, fearsome cavalrymen and deadly as centaurs. They were born guerrillas with a passion for ornament, especially gold. Ancient Thrace included what is now modern Bulgaria, south-east Yugoslavia, European Turkey and part of north-eastern Greece, but the Museum of Fine Arts' current exhibition of Thracian Treasures consists only of artifacts discovered in Bulgaria. It is a sumptuous collection of objects that were the compensation if not theraison d'etre for a savage and uncertain life...