Word: venetian
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Under the shadow of a Venetian palazzo, the figure strides onstage in the regalia of an affluent Victorian gentleman -top hat, frock coat, gloves and cane...
...design will provide new exhibition space for the overcrowded American wing and the European collections. On the park side, the present hodgepodge façade of Romanesque, Venetian Gothic, bare brick and nondescript modern will be concealed behind windowless walls or veiled by vast expanses of glass. A final judgment will have to wait until the time, still at least ten years off, when the project is completed. But some critics already feel that the new park façade is blank and featureless; it seems more appropriate to a factory than to one of the world's greatest...
...County Cork man himself, Trevor has spread an eery Irish mist over the shabby Dublin back street where O'Neill's Hotel stands in bewitched semi-ruin. On the top floor lives the proprietor, Mrs. Sinnott, at 91 a legendary personage. Half-Irish, half-Venetian and a deaf-mute, Mrs. Sinnott is an almost mystical presence. The members of her family and the orphans she has collected about her over the years-mostly the lost and the losers-make their pilgrimages to her room and scribble confessions into the red exercise books through which she communicates...
...Kentucky Derby- the "drugstore Derby"- Venetian Way beat Bally Ache. Venetian Way was a sore horse who responded admirably to butazolidin, legal in Kentucky at the time. When Venetian Way ran in the Preakness two weeks later without the help of butazolidin (pain-killing drugs are not legal in Maryland), he did not even finish in the money while the sound- legged Bally Ache won. The performance of Venetian Way with and without butazolidin and other similar cases convinced the Kentucky State Racing Commission that drugs were unfair to the horse and to the public...
Combining a scholar's passion for detail with a novelist's fertile imagination, Mujica-Lainez set about constructing from the few known facts a sumptuous, fictional Doge's Palace of the mind. Like that famous seat of the Venetian Republic, whose ceiling, walls and floors constitute a convulsion of visual splendor, Bomarzo's pages glitter with descriptions of processions, land and naval battles, landscapes, a courtesan's sultry rec room and a cabalist's murky study...