Word: peacocke
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Fellini is so bountiful with incident and observation that he makes most other film makers seem stingy. Stories, anecdotes, often just images succeed each other in splendid profusion, as regal and surprising as the peacock that lands on the town fountain one gray afternoon and spreads his plumage in elegant display. There are family chronicles: a meal that turns into an intramural brawl, a trip in the country with an uncle on loan from the local funny farm, who climbs a tree, refuses to come down, and howls, "I want a woman!" until the nuns and doctors come to take...
...style are there: the liturgical stateliness of form, the encyclopedic richness of ornament and material (gold, silver, precious stones, enamel), the sublime monotony of pose and gesture by which the human figure was depicted only as the dwelling place of a thought or a doctrine, the flat mantle of peacock colors, the linear arabesques. An ivory carving like the 10th century Apostles John and Paul-their long-toed feet, under the prismatic ripple of drapery, as articulate as hands-shows the almost neurotic tenderness that the Byzantine style could muster. But the more usual tone of high Byzantine...
Emmett G. Solomon, the courtly 64-year-old chairman of San Francisco's Crocker Bank, presented his board with a hand-picked successor last August. Not surprisingly, the candidate was Lester Peacock, 43, the bank's president and a fellow traditionalist, who seemed particularly interested in bankerly decorum. Peacock once remarked to his associates: "No gentleman ever wears brown shoes." The bank's board turned Peacock down flat because Crocker's pin-stripe conservatism had simply not been paying off. While more innovative, bolder California banks were gaining ground, the earnings of Crocker, the nation...
...Peacock retired to his ranch in Texas, and Chairman Solomon went headhunting. Last week, with the board's enthusiastic approval, he introduced his catch-a big one. Thomas R. Wilcox, 57, former vice chairman of New York's First National City Bank, will succeed Solomon as Crocker's chairman and chief executive on April...
Despite all that has been learned about the dynamics of a comet's tail, its shape cannot be accurately predicted. In the late 18th century, DeCheseaux's comet sprouted seven distinct tails that fanned out peacock-like. Some comets do not develop tails at all. As of last week, however, Kohoutek was developing a classic appendage, which should continue to increase in length and grandeur until the comet comes close to the sun. Most comets survive this relatively close flyby of the sun and emerge, sometimes altered in appearance, with even more brilliant tails. Others, affected...