Word: quatrefoil
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...strolling down the loggia of the Doges Palace, Venice's famous landmark. Across the way he can see the city's other famous sites--the Clock Tower and the Campanile, the Bridge of Sighs and the Ca D'Oro. He stops to marvel at the craftsmanship of a carved quatrefoil atop one arch. A chiseled demon leers down at him. The 65-year-old Adelson mirrors the expression as he waves his arms at the surroundings. "You feel you're standing in the middle of St. Mark's Square, don't you?" he exclaims. "You are in Italy, in Venice...
...nearest relation, though, is architecture. Through a gap in the wall, you can walk into each of Serra's Torqued Ellipses and contemplate its interior space. Serra got the idea from a Baroque church in Rome: Francesco Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, whose plan is a quatrefoil stretched to a near ellipse. Standing in it, Serra wondered, "What if I turn this form on itself?" But the closest architectural sibling of these new sculptures is the work of Serra's friend Frank Gehry, the designer of the spectacular Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain, with its freely twisted...
...moon-profile crescents, tiny notched wheels that look like watch gears and a variety of other small shapes that would be lovely if dipped in gold and hung on charm bracelets. Most startling are the long noodles in the angular forms of triangles and diamonds, even a large curving quatrefoil. They are not made anymore because "they take too long to dry," Ronza explains, "especially those with corners." All of which seems a pity, for they would certainly appeal to postmodernist eaters. Basta pasta...
...Clocker turned and waved to his wife. "Old horses never die," he whimpered, "they go to Suffolk Downs." The Clocker gave these tips: First Doit Easy; Fifth, Four Chances; Sixth, Algasir; Seventh, Blue Falcon; Eighth, Soma Lad; Ninth, Quatrefoil...
...Lord Birkenhead has won him the name of lynx at the bar and lion among the ladies. While Lord High Chancellor of Britain (1919-22) he was revealed as a sphynx possessed of corroding scorn and a face so immobile as to suggest paralysis. To round out the quatrefoil of his quadruped characteristics, the Earl of Birkenhead habitually walks with a sodden heavy stride, his hands held dangling before his chest like the paws of a performing bear. But when he rises in public debate or sits down to a private tete-a-tete, he reveals the brilliance and supreme...
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