Word: scaffoldings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wildlife and signs of the zodiac. His crowning achievement was the Capitol dome: 4,664 sq. ft. of concave fresco, with figures 15 ft. high, purposely distorted so that they would appear natural to spectators below. It took him eleven months to finish, lying on his back on a scaffold, 180 ft. above the floor...
...convicted murderer was dragged to the gibbet and eyes dipped for the last benediction. The sentenced man also lowered his head-and then suddenly drove it into the hangman's belly, sending him hurtling off the scaffold to his death on the cobblestones below During the 24 hours set aside for a second executioner to get to Soledad City near the Mexican border, new evidence surfaced, exonerating the "murderer" of his original charge. But what about the murder he now had committed...
...teach them to play baseball." Three months out of jail, where he served four years for inciting a 1960 leftist riot, Mexican Artist David Alfaro Siqueiros, 67, was at work on a mural at Chapultepec Castle. His assistant, distrusting the steel framework of the 15-ft.-high scaffold Siqueiros was using, substituted a wooden plank for one of the metal bases. Five minutes later-crash! Siqueiros is now at his Mexico City home with two broken vertebrae, in some scaffolding of his own. But he has company; his wife slipped in a store and broke her wrist...
...tapestry studios. To cover the 2,153-sq.-ft. circle, he used 440 Ibs. of paint and applied every bit by his own hand. The canvas was glued to the polyester panels and lifted into place. Chagall, who is 77, touched up the joints, sweating atop a 70-ft. scaffold. The whole job took him a year-and the Russian-born artist gave the masterpiece to France in gratitude for his life of artistry there...
...story of the Molly Maguires was clearly a labor of love. Lewis comes from Mahanoy City in the heart of the coal fields, where the old wounds are still raw. He notes approvingly that all condemned Molly Maguires died gamely and with style. Two carried red roses to the scaffold. Another joked cheerfully as his hair was cut just before his execution: "Make it good, Al," he told the barber, "or you're liable to lose a customer...