Word: rococo
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They had watched in growing anxiety as several ambulances drove through the gates carrying surgical equipment with which to turn the Palace's rococo Buhl Room into an operating theater. They had stood and watched Queen Mary and her eldest granddaughter Elizabeth drive into the courtyard and disappear behind the great grey façade, their faces unsmiling...
...When the Spaniards brought baroque to the New World, it blossomed in fresh and wonderful variations. Pal Kelemen, Hungarian-born art historian, has spent nearly three years tracing baroque's high-spirited course through Latin America. In a handsome new book with a sky-high price, Baroque and Rococo in Latin America (Macmillan; $16.50), he gives a rich account in words and pictures of what...
...Prince Who Was a Thief (Universal-International) is the kind of frothy, nonalcoholic, Arabian-nights cocktail that Hollywood has shaken up a thousand and one times. Brusque handclaps still bring on the harem dancing girls; Tangier bristles with flashing scimitars, wicked potentates, skulking cutpurses, rococo palaces and phrases...
...music wafted from loudspeakers, through streets gaily arched in colored lights, over children tumbling in the snow, across the city preparing to holiday. On the Eve of Christmas, Brussels looked serene and secure, but, like the rest of the world, Brussels felt the underlying fear and tension. Inside the rococo Hotel Metropole, in an atmosphere of crisis, the Foreign Ministers and military chiefs of the twelve Atlantic pact nations met this week to set up the long-delayed military force for defense against Communism...
...well. When young Arthur Houghton, fresh out of Harvard with a well-developed taste for rare and fine books,* went to work in the Corning Glass Works 21 years ago, Steuben was an unwanted, money-losing subsidiary. Glassblowers made their own designs, and tried to outdo each other in rococo examples of their craft. Houghton, whose family controls Corning Glass, was wasting his well-cultivated taste on ordinary glassmaking. He asked for and was given Steuben in 1933, along with a stockpile of "blinding-colored glass monstrosities" and the lusterless annual deficit...