Word: stonemason
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...been 50 years since the small but cunning warrior Asterix and his podgy stonemason pal Obelix began battling the armies of Julius Caesar in their remote village on the Brittany coast - the only part of ancient Gaul never conquered by the Romans. The latest episode in the pair's comic-strip adventures was released in France last month to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first Asterix story, written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo for the magazine Pilote. The new book, Asterix and Obelix's Birthday: The Golden Book, is the 34th in a series...
...yeah, he was a member of the Waffen SS. But after sharing my hunger, he was so human to me that, if he were before me, I would have readily forgiven him. This intensely self-critical, self-reflective stranger who is so beleaguered by shame, this art stamp collector, stonemason, fledgling artist, eventual writer, master dancer, lover, husband...Günter Grass became me, his mouth rubberbanded shut. I was him, playing dice with a religious Bavarian, discussing the future. Strange, isn’t it, the power of a good book...
...officer who heads the London P.R. agency MDA, calls the Masonic campaign "one of the most challenging accounts I've taken on." A challenge indeed. Even today, some 400 years after it originated probably as an English gentleman's club that derived its name, rituals and symbols from the stonemason's craft the mere mention of Freemasonry can inspire fear and suspicion...
Growing up in Spring Green, Wis., Haas used to help his great uncle, who was the stonemason at Frank Lloyd Wright's home. He studied painting at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Minnesota, but architectural references kept creeping into his work. After moving to New York City in 1968, he came to public attention with a proposal to paint a series of haunting silhouettes of demolished landmarks on building walls near the historic structures' former sites. In his first actual mural, on an all-but-blank side wall...
...Beverly, to Topsfield, to Rockport . . . And now let's get back to the music"). Fishermen flipping the dial pause to marvel at a plea for contributions by a local voice, so familiar and yet so strange; they often stay on to sample Mozart or Bach. Guy Wonson, a stonemason, started listening in 1968. He got a kick out of the commercials at first, but the music gradually insinuated itself. Now he sometimes listens while building walls...