Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Look of a Leg. In time, the collection ranges from a 14th century silver point* miniature drawing of an elephant and a mouse by an anonymous artist to works of the Goyaesque Felice Giani, who died in Rome in 1823 after an artistic career that included decorating the apartments in the Tuileries for Josephine Bonaparte. In scope, the collection runs from Paolo Uccello's geometric sketch of the 32 surfaces of the mazzocchio, a circular wicker framework used by Florentines as a base for their characteristic cloth headpieces, to an intricately executed sketch by Artist-Author Giorgio Vasari (Lives...
...stylus with a point of silver that flakes off on paper specially treated with a mixture of bone and glue...
...Silver Lining...
...Selden Jr., chairman of the House Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs, was all briefed and packed to go to a recent regional meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union at Guadalajara. Mexico, but Rayburn turned thumbs down on the trip because Selden had voted with Judge Smith. Selden found a silver lining anyway: his anti-Rayburn stand on "Southern principles" gave him strong new popularity back home just when he needed it most...
...Silver Shield. Leontyne has not taken a vacation in years, rarely sees her twelve-room house in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. With a six-figure income, the only luxury she finds time for is buying dresses (in Rome) and hats and suits (in Vienna). She has also completely refurnished the Price home in Laurel, built a room to accommodate Big Auntie. She now has a considerable entourage, including a personal manager, a concert manager, an accompanist, a pressagent, a male secretary and a housekeeper, all of whom, as Teacher Kimball once put it, "would like to put a silver...