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Like most artists, Lurçat liked medieval tapestries best. He admired their storybook symbolism, straightforward drawing and economical restriction to blacks, reds and yellows. At Aubusson, Beauvais and the world-famous Gobelin tapestry works in Paris, descendants of the medieval masters still labored. But their models were mostly second-rate Italian engravings and 18th Century boudoir muralists like Boucher and Fragonard. Twentieth Century tapestries used as many as 14,000 different hues of thread, took years to finish. But medieval ones, designed to be "frescoes in wool," used as few as 17 hues and were far simpler to weave...
Better than Hollywood. Yellowknife is a storybook mining town on the north shore of Great Slave Lake, 700 miles north of Edmonton, in the cold, desolate subArctic where temperatures fall sometimes to 60° below zero. Traces of gold were first discovered there in 1898. But fur-trapping was the area's No. 1 business until, one fall day in 1934, Prospectors C. J. Baker and H. M. Muir found high-grade ore on the shore of Yellowknife Bay. Then the gold rush...
...Laurent's greatest political assets is the fact that he is English-speaking Canada's conception of the perfect French Canadian. Handsome, dapper, with close-cropped hair that has turned from black to grey since he entered the Cabinet, he looks like a storybook Frenchman. Yet not even the most suspicious outsider can find in him the slightest trace of Quebec provincialism...
...villages and country towns were different. From behind lace curtains in neat, storybook cottages, Hausfrauen watched the endless chain of tanks clanking down the cobbled Hauptstrasse. The war was passing them...
...American pioneers were often crusaders. But they were chiefly "solid, sober, cautious" citizens who firmly believed in hanging on to their scalps. Crafty pathfinders like Daniel Boone were not glamorous storybook characters; they were "heroes because they were . . . men who did not get lost...