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...surfeit arises from the sheer size of the show. Its catalog lists 748 items, ranging from a corroded metal pen to a whole stained-glass lancet window from Canterbury Cathedral. It covers manuscripts, paintings, maps, jewelry, seals, coins, heraldry, enamelwork, ceramics, armor, textiles, architecture and a great deal more besides. It traces the patronage of five Plantagenet kings and has a lot to say about how works of art were commissioned by the nobility and the great merchants, executed by their makers and read by the audience. It wanders off into didactic byways and outlines, among other things, the changing...
...very simple puzzle--with four balls in a circular maze--caused a craze in the 1880s almost on the scale of the Rubik's Cube fad a century later. The object was to put the four balls in the center of the maze, or place the "pigs" in the "pen...
...Soviet Union whom he has not seen in 15 years. In a sense, though, Brodsky has never left Russia. Its language shapes his thought, and its landscape glitters throughout his poems: "I was raised by the cold that, to warm my palm,/ gathered my fingers around a pen...
...after the coffee arrives, we trade drafts. My friend is writing a profile of Robert Coles; I have chosen "The China Lobby in American Life" as my topic. I grab a pen and scrawl nervously in the margins of her paper...
...inquired. The request took the Soviets by surprise, and the immediate answer was nyet: interviews with cosmonauts must be arranged well in advance and not on an exclusive basis. Besides, Thompson was told, the cosmonauts hate shaving and making all the other preparations required before meeting the press. "My pen doesn't take pictures," Thompson replied; all he wanted was a brief chat. In the end, and in the new spirit of glasnost, Thompson was granted rare access to the Soviet Flight Control Center in Kaliningrad. There, through an interpreter, he communicated with the orbiting cosmonauts during a brief period...