Word: velvets
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...songs dealt with all sorts of . One was about "a girl with as soft as velvet, and she blew up in the Polish resistance to and another described a more girl on the Colorado trail. A melody told of "dean's inspecting at Swarthmore, where "more- and there...
...show brings together mostly unfamiliar works, including three Rembrandts. Richly hung against red plush walls in three small rooms and a connecting foyer a wide variety of styles and periods offset each other, inviting fresh appraisals and creating an effect that is intimate and dazzling-like diamonds nestling in velvet More surprising is the mood of the collection: a luminous tranquillity...
...Judgment, to the latest, a 1948 still life by Matisse, there is hardly a masterwork that reflects turbulent emotions Enthusiasm there is, such as in Degas' pastel Singer with a Glove, but most portrait subjects are caught in repose: Manet's pipe-puffing Smoker, Tintoretto's velvet-clad, regal Venetian Senator, Joos van Clève's Mater Dolorosa...
Kennedy joined the field after hounds moved off. Riding her bay gelding, Bit of Irish, she wore rat catcher: brown boots, riding breeches, tweed jacket and black velvet hunting cap.* There were around 25 riders in the field. A grey fox was "treed," and, according to a member of the hunt, this didn't make Mrs. Kennedy too happy...
...sometimes referred to as the greatest amateur in musical history -partially because he was financially independent, partially because he approached his music with a relaxed urbanity foreign to such great, tyrannical contemporaries as Toscanini or Reiner. Despite the ferocity of his public utterances, he handled his orchestras with velvet irony. "We can not expect you to follow us all the time," he would say to an offending player, "but if you would have the kindness to keep in touch with us occasionally...