Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have no poets and no epics. Ask me to talk to you of greatness and Art. I will tell you that you are lost. That the Indian with the name of a bird and the hieroglyphic picture-writing and the stone monuments of island cultures have a wisdom which you lack. They have not divided the estate of God into man and nature, into past and present. They have not abandoned the essence of image and the picture-idea...
Among the rich racketeers who commute to their showplaces in the western Chicago suburb of River Forest (pop. 12,500), none lives in higher style than Anthony Joseph Accardo, 52, top banana in the crime syndicate founded by the late Al ("Scarface") Capone. Tough Accardo's $200,000 stone and concrete mansion, designed like a combination pleasure dome and pillbox, offers various conveniences: an indoor swimming pool, two bowling alleys, a pipe organ, a roof garden where strolling violinists play dinnertime waltzes, vast reception rooms, six master bedrooms, baths where the water flows from gold faucets, and-a special...
Last week Tokyo's largest private art gallery, the Bridgestone, owned by Western Art Collector Shojiro Ishibashi (whose name translates into stone bridge), was displaying 38 figures, one of the largest Haniwa exhibits ever held. Among the prize examples from private and public collections all over Japan were seven objects now officially classified as unexportable "Important Cultural Assets," only one cut below "National Treasure." (But even with Japan's leading Haniwa expert, Professor Fumio Miki, on watch, two examples had to be withdrawn as suspected fakes after the catalogue had gone to press...
...rolling stone that starts it all is The Good Guy (Robert Taylor)-he's the one with the prettiest horse-who is about to marry The Girl (Patricia Owens) -she's the one with the gingham dress-when they are kidnaped by The Bad Guy (Richard Widmark)-he's the one with the occupational sneer-who forces them to lead him to The Buried Treasure. First they cross The Bad Lands, then they encounter The Bluecoats, later they come to The Ghost Town, finally they are attacked by The Indians-a tribe of cosmetic Comanches who bite...
Retreat to New York. Milton was no hidden persuader. He opened a bar in the west portico of the state capitol at Raleigh to sway the legislators. Many North Carolinians still insist that the chipped stone steps of the capitol were broken by the barrels of booze rolled up and down them in those days...