Word: stuccoed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some months ago a mysterious visitor from the Red mainland, known only as Mr. Tao, began visiting Wei Li-huang in the stucco house. Whatever Mr. Tao said must have been extremely persuasive. Recently the servants overheard a fierce argument between Wei and his anti-Communist son and daughter. Shortly after, Wei and his wife left by automobile, preceded by a dozen pieces of luggage. They changed to a Canton-bound train, and vanished behind the Bamboo Curtain...
...View from Pompey's Head, by Hamilton Basso, a successful New York lawyer is forced by a legal complication to return to his Southern home town for the first time in 15 years. So home he goes, dipping back into his stucco and magnolia origins, reappraising his whole adult life, and raising the shades of youthful loves before finally drawing the shade upon his past...
Honeyed Goddess. Last month Digger Sestieri hit real pay dirt. His workers broke into Paestum's "sacred precinct," surrounded by a wall of massive square boulders. Inside they found a small, hut-shaped temple. The interior walls were of stucco; on the floor were a rust-corroded iron bedstead and a set of ornate, gilded bronze water jars. Each jar, decorated with figures of female heads, sphinxes, rams and serpents, was filled with an amber-colored, resinlike substance: solidified honey. Presumably distilled from the nectar of Paestum's famed roses, the 2,500-year-old honey...
...series of better-than-average Italian films. But the higher, she goes, the harder Gina has to work. She and Mirko have formed three corporations to handle her career and investments, and they have permitted themselves only two extravagances: a glaring red Lancia Aurelia and a pink stucco villa on Via Appia Antica, right next door to the place where the Empress Poppaea used to take her daily bath in the milk of 300 asses. They have planted 300 trees on the grounds, laid out broad English lawns, strewn the area with ancient paving stones and 3rd century sarcophagi...
Sculptor Manzù, who began his career as a stucco worker, is as direct as his work is subtle. "I am religious, yes," Manzù says with feeling, "but I'm not a religious artist-I expect to carve all kinds of things. You can't limit art to religion any more than you can limit religion itself, or life . . . In sculpture my greatest inspiration is the ancient Greeks." Drawing a deep breath, he adds: "I wish I could be as big as they...