Word: veilings
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...America now that the poor dears are absolutely battered by waves of instructions. That's why when I speak to them, they seem to feel they're getting the God's honest truth. And they ask the most extraordinary questions: 'When do you wear a veil?' I tell them, 'It depends on what you've been doing the night before.' Seriously, I tell them mainly to relax. It's basically your attitude coming into a room that really counts...
...Schwarz wants to create controversy by affecting a veil of pretentious ignorance, he is to be saluted on his success. If however, his review is earnestly written, I am led only to think, "It seems he can't be serious, but he is." Louis Natenshen...
...Cowboy appears as a Negro dressed entirely in white-that is to say, as a union of opposites, as a completeness possible perhaps only in God. He comes moreover as a redeemer. One by one as through the veil of a sanctuary, he leads the junkies through a door marked TOILET. One by one he injects them with an elixir that washes away their wretchedness, that raises them from the living dead, that transports them to "existence on another plane...
...Veil the Starkness. Tapestry's new renaissance comes partly from a curiosity on the part of artists for new techniques, a new appreciation on the part of the public for textures and bold colors. But architecture, tapestry's first muse, seems to be most responsible. Says Jean Lurgat, 70, chairman of the International Tapestry Center and leader of the new movement in weaving: ''The modern world needs these large ornamental tapestries, these colorful hangings, to veil, and at the same time to enrich, the sometimes exaggerated starkness of bare walls in contemporary architecture.'' Lurgat...
...that all Greek figures were shown consciously inhaling rather than exhaling. After painting the murals for International House at Columbia University in 1924. he suffered a heart attack, went alone to Europe to recuperate. While painting in Florence in 1928, he died. So deeply had he drawn the veil of mystery over his last years that his wife had difficulty in locating his body...