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...piece, an equestrian statue of the knight St. George, has 2,291 diamonds, 406 rubies and 209 pearls-and an artistic value transcending them all. Almost unnoticed beneath its bright blanket of jewels, the horse's opal eye flashes balefully from a smooth, stylized head of chalcedony. The swoop of the knight's crystal blade pulls the composition together, drawing attention to the writhing dragon underfoot-a creature all the more monstrous for its emerald scales and egg-sized ruby warts...
...spring now being shown on Manhattan's Seventh Avenue that next spring had better be a warm one. Versions of Dior's diving neckline (TIME, Sept. 13) abound. Girls who, for one reason or another, cannot get away with that vertiginous plunge have the option to swoop the skin in back. By day, fashion follows the mid-century's other architectural foible-concealing the awkward infrastructure with artificially streamlined simplicity. The result: straight-up-and-down suits with that covered-up, curtain-wall look...
However far the pendulum of Stella's art swung, it always swung back to his romance with his beloved symbol of American technology. As late as 1939, seven years before his death, he revisited the awesome girders of the Brooklyn Bridge and once again painted its steel swoop spanning not only river but the wider barriers of sea, continent and man's soul...
...United Nations is the Capistrano of diplomacy. In their swallow-tailed coats, the key statesmen of member na tions swoop into New York each fall for the opening sessions of the General Assembly. This year some 77 foreign ministers and heads of government on hand presented a collection of rare dip lomatic birds unmatched in variety and political color...
Confucius emphasized family obligations, evident still in Viet Nam's ancestor worship and cult of the dead. The 15th day of the seventh month is set aside annually for the departed; the shades swoop down upon the living, who do their best to placate them with a sumptuous feast. Dressed in their best black silk and carrying burning joss sticks, the women recite invitations to their dead ancestors to partake of roast pig's head and sticks of sugar cane, peanuts and white rice. As offerings to less trencher-minded spirits, they burn paper imitations of currency...