Word: tiles
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...recent years, Fawkes' legacy has broadened. He provided the inspiration for the tile character in the Wachowski brothers' V for Vendetta, in which a masked crusader embarks on a terrorist campaign against a totalitarian British dystopia. Fawkes also proved an effective fundraising rally cry for onetime U.S. presidential candidate Ron Paul, who garnered more than $4 million on the holiday in 2007 from a website commemorating Fawkes. This year, revelers will gather across Britain - most notably in Lewes, a town once known as a hotbed of anti-Catholicism sentiment that throws one of the British Isles' biggest conflagrations...
...lives: "Many women regarded apartment ownership as a prerequisite for a date. That was common in Chinese personals, which sometimes read like real estate listings, as in this ad in a magazine for rural women: A 27-YEAR-OLD MAN...DIVORCED WITH AN OPEN NATURE...POSSESSING A FIVE-BEDROOM TILE HOUSE WITH FURNITURE, MODERN APPLIANCES, AND A MOTORCYCLE, SEEKS A WOMAN TO BE A PARTNER FOR LIFE. The preoccupation with property was not as mercenary as it appeared, like height, apartment ownership was a marker, a sign that a man could be depended...
...Indeed, nature has survived and prospered in the subtropical habitats that surround Brazil's second city. Nobody actually gets eaten by snakes, but more than a few Cariocas have come across them on tile porches and asphalt highways, lost and disoriented by the sounds and smells of a modern metropolis...
...trunk are writhing ancestral figures - slave, virginal taupou and high chief - and carved at canopy height are the words SAMOA MUAMUA LEATUA, God first in Samoa. Soaring above American Samoa's national museum and gallery, the sculpture - titled From Agony to Ecstasy - is the brainchild of local artist Tile Tuala. Scurrying around it on this warm winter's morning are the half-dozen assistants from other island nations whom the artist has enlisted to help with the finishing touches of his sculpture. "We love to work together with all the artists of the South Pacific," says Tuala...
...Cubist (or at any rate, cubified) wrinkles, poses against a drapery covered with arabesques and birds. And then there were the mosaic inventions of the Catalan artist Josep Maria Jujol, who was working for Gaudi when Miro was a teenager, and whose wandering line and isolated words set in tile clearly stayed in Miro's mind when he was doing his poem-pictures. Miro's work thereafter would stay populated with images of specifically Catalan identity. ''Hard at work and full of enthusiasm,'' he reported to a friend from Montroig in 1923. ''Monstrous animals and angelic animals. Trees with eyes...