Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show is particularly rich in pottery: lusterware, invented in Baghdad during the Abbassid dynasty (750-1258) in order to mimic the richer gold or silver dishes used by the court; elaborate dishes and bowls; and several examples of that ethereal and, for some reason, uncopiable turquoise-glazed black-figure ware which was produced in Syria around the 12th century. One plate (see cut) bears the design of a heron, stalking with incomparable grace through this background color as if through azure water. The body of a vase is adorned with leaf-shaped flecks of black, each done with one movement...
...decorative pattern breaks up the surface. It volatilizes what once was solid, rendering substance−bronze, stucco, tile or parchment−almost immaterial. This was no less true of relatively small objects like a 13th century Syrian canteen in silver inlaid brass (see color page), with its elaborate conflation of Islamic and Christian imagery arranged in dense concentric bands, than of vast architectural projects like the tile-work of the Alhambra in Granada. It is hard−perhaps impossible−to hold the entire pattern in one's mind, even when looking...
...series of races that spanned four gray, windy days at Nottingham, the U.S. women's eight finished second, defeating such heavyweights as the Soviet Union and West Germany. After the last race, as the Americans posed for pictures, the sun broke through to shine on their silver medals-and the tears of joy running down their cheeks...
...write; his wife Denise is suing him for divorce and stripping him of everything but his costly cotton undershorts; his old friend Thaxter, an eccentric literary conman with expensive tastes, has squandered thousands of Citrine's dollars given to start an intellectual quarterly. In addition, Citrine's silver-gray Mercedes has been vandalized by a petty hood, a Mafia buffo character named Ronald Cantabile, to whom Citrine unwittingly gave a bad check in payment for a minor gambling debt...
...points, disagreed on others, and "reached all verdicts that can be reached." U.S. District Judge Ben Krentzman sent them back into the wood-paneled jury room in Tampa, Fla., to deliberate further. After two more days, the jurors finally re-emerged last week with most of a verdict. Handsome, silver-haired ex-Senator Edward J. Gurney, 61, the first U.S. Senator in 50 years to be criminally indicted while in office, was found not guilty of bribery, of taking unlawful compensation, and of three counts of lying to a grand jury. The jurors disagreed on a fourth perjury count...