Word: tablecloth
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...favela of Vidigal. On the way, he suddenly turned aside into a three-room hovel, where Elvira Almeida Lima, caught by surprise, had yet to make her bed or clear the breakfast dishes. The Pope gently kissed the old woman and blessed her. As he left she clutched a tablecloth and buried her face in it, sobbing. When he reached the church. John Paul removed the gold ring that Pope Paul VI had given him when he was named a Cardinal. Then he handed it to a local priest as a donation to the parish...
...frame. At the downtown Lake Placid house rented for the women's team by the Austrian Ski Federation, all talk about gold medals was banned. Moser-Pröll spent the evening before the women's downhill crocheting a red tablecloth-possibly something for the Café Annemarie that she runs with her husband Herbert in the off-season at Kleinarl...
...build up a record of their action through a labyrinth of nuances. For this reason, a painting like Anne Leaning on a Table, 1977, is as bracing as it is modest. A high stamina of observation is entailed in the complicated whites and shadows of the tablecloth and housecoat, set down with Arikha's fugitive and worried scribbles of the brush. When he leaves his customary palette of white and earth colors, the results show his background in abstract painting: Canadian Envelope, 1977, with its immaculate placement of rectangles, its cross-rhymes of blue and red, seems as consciously...
...second largest city?behind Cleveland, ahead of Cincinnati?with a metropolitan population of about 1.1 million, and shows signs of considerable prosperity, it does not have a major symphony orchestra, a notable theater, a ballet troupe, or a big-league art museum. It also does not possess a single tablecloth restaurant of even one-star distinction. If you want a good French dinner, they say, try Maisonette or Pigall's in Cincinnati, a two-hour drive. For topnotch Chinese food, head for Pan-Asia in Cleveland, northeast on the interstate. Some swear that a first-class Northern Italian meal...
...other times, though, the messages seem lost in transit. For instance, Groffo dances on a table at Dave's baptism. He flails about in a russet suit on an orange tablecloth, only to fall on an orange roast pig which has an orange in its mouth and is lit by orange candles at its head. For Groffo to fall on the pig is appropriate but for everything to be orange makes no sense...