Word: talisman
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...show is rich in souvenirs and epigrams of the modernist imagination, Sérusier's little Talisman of 1888, for instance, with its plain flat patches of color that demonstrated so vividly to Denis and Bonnard that art should not be mere representation, but rather "a transposition, a caricature, the passionate equivalent of an experienced sensation"; or the 1890 self-portrait by Edouard Vuillard, done in brilliant polemical slabs of nonnaturalist color. But it is to the great paintings at the center of the exhibition that one returns, those hinges upon which art swung from the 19th century into the 20th...
...other business, CHUL officially recognized two new undergraduate organizations, the Talisman Music Society and the College Bowl Team. The Talisman Society is an imformal group which sings popular songs and barbershop numbers...
...three days of abstinence builds their strength. Several leading men in the 1940s, the story goes, were sabotaged by a shapely U.S. soprano who seduced them just before the curtain.) The only supernatural aid Pavarotti enlists to get himself onstage is a bent nail in his pocket, a traditional talisman of Italian singers. Fans, aware of this quirk, send inm nails by the dozens, sometimes silver or gold, dangling from chains or fasinoned into pins. But Pavarotti will use only an authentic nail from the scenery backstage...
...world recession, rampant inflation, low growth and severe balance of trade problems have left leaders in the chancelleries and the counting houses doubting the present and fearing the future. But nothing has been worse in a period of crumbling foundations than the decline of the dollar, which is the talisman of an uncertain world. A first move toward a more secure economic future would be to re-establish the stability of the dollar inside a more managed and predictable international money system...
...inch from Travolta's interpretive skills. A closer look at Fever will reveal both an actor who works his tail off and a man with a sharp eye for stage business. As Tony Manero, he strides down that block of Bay Ridge swinging a can of paint like a talisman, and when he stops for a snack at the corner pizza stand he orders two slices, then eats them one piled right on top of the other...