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Among the 105 objects on display is a graceful three-legged wine cup from the Shang dynasty. Dating from about 1750 B.C., it is the earliest decorated bronze yet found, but its elegant shape and fine detail suggest that a sophisticated craftsmanship must have already existed for several centuries. During the Shang period, which lasted until 1030 B.C., bronze was so precious that it was strictly the prerogative of royalty, and even then used largely for sacramental rites honoring gods and ancestors. In fact, the vessels known as dings, which are characteristic of the time, were symbols of the divine...
...most part, Shang craftsmen from the area near the Yellow River tried to make their decorative designs blend with and enhance the vessel's shape. Artisans in more remote regions-Shang influence ranged over a geographical area the size of the whole eastern U.S. from Maine to Florida and inland as far as Ohio -were more adventurous, as shown in one vessel whose corners become rams' heads supported by thrusting foreshoulders and incised feet. Not content, the artist decorated the rams' haunches with crested birds, and set snakelike dragons coiling around the vessel's shoulder...
...Bang-Shang-a-Lang...
...essays entitled, "Licking the Platter: Niche Differentiation in Sexes of Dioecious Plants" and "An Introduction to Shang Epigraphy" are this year's winners of the annual Bowdoin Prize competition, Lucy White, a spokesman for the Prize Office, said yesterday...
...most $55 a night. Then one day in 1970 a record-company executive missed his flight back to London and dropped in at the Caves Club. The Rollers were playing. Almost immediately, the Rollers had a contract, and began turning out such British top-ten hits as Remember, Shang-a-Lang and All of Me Loves...