Word: woodworker
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Often tapestries, commissioned to show the exploits of a brave and royal person, were rolled up. carried into battle to decorate his tent. Later, in the 17th and 18th centuries, taste turned more and more to fixed wall decoration-marble, gilded woodwork, monumental paintings -and tapestry began to take a second place. Ironically, just as great technical advances were being made in the art of weaving, the spirit of originality began to disappear, and tapestry largely became a slavish imitation of paintings-often complete with their own ornate "gold" frames woven around their borders. With the exception...
...audience. "I can't say that while in orbit you sit there and pray," he said. "It's a very busy time . . . My religion is not a fire-engine type of religion-not one to be called on in emergency and then put God back in the woodwork. My peace has been made with my maker for a number of years, so I had no particular worries on that line...
...often, you depict every run-of-the-mill, nondescript, Caspar Milquetoast, blend-into-the-woodwork type gangster as looking like a bank clerk. And now Eichmann! Come, come, TIME. Where are you doing your banking? Surely not out here in the West, where I am married to a banker who looks like a gangster...
Like a man who has dropped a piano from a great height, the U.S. last week began gingerly assessing the wreckage of President Kennedy's hopeful new hemisphere Alliance for Progress. The Cuban crash still echoed throughout Latin America, and much woodwork was splintered. But after examination, it seemed as if the instrument might still be made to play...
...home to their own tastes. By the time the two children, Caroline and John Jr., got home from their Palm Beach vacations, Jackie had their rooms ready. Caroline found most of her white bedroom furniture from the Georgetown N Street house in a pale pink room with white woodwork and old-fashioned chintz curtains. Little John, now 9½ Ibs. and smiling broadly, was bedded down next door in a white room with white woodwork. He slept in the same white wicker bassinette that was used by his mother and his sister...