Word: woodworker
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Opening the studio doors, he revealed easels and canvases, wire frames and modelling clay. Each room is painted a different color and white woodwork accents the drawings, oils, and primitive handtools placed about the walls. In one room, a tall model awkwardly finished undressing while one of Lawson's pupils adjusted her easel and brushes...
...When the curtain goes up, Figaro is measuring and planning and Susanna is trying on a hat. Their music is for rearranging your furniture in different positions . . . And you don't have much time because soon Figaro will swing into Se vuol ballare, one of the best woodwork-washing pieces ever composed . . . How would I like an opera to open? With Venetian blinds-that is, music which requires delicacy and reaching-obviously a coloratura aria. Caro nome, for example, would be excellent . . . Wagner, during the Ring cycle, wants [the blinds] left dirty. The forest bird is his only Venetian...
...throne. There is the grand opening of the "Versailles-Hilton" hotel; the Folies-Bergere holds a contest for the official post of "King's Mistress"; and visiting royalty floods the capital ("Ava Gardner and H.S.H. Kelly are in residence"). Two hundred nobles come out of the woodwork and descend on Versailles, all set to eat Pippin out of house and palace. His daughter's American suitor proposes to merchandise the impoverished monarchy ("The Dukedom of Dallas?-why, ten billionaires would be after it"). All goes well as long as Pippin is content to remain wax in the hands...
Spring was on the march in Uruguay, rainbowing roadsides and vacant lots with vivid wild flowers. Cafe owners set out sidewalk tables. At coastal resort hotels, workmen began taking down shutters and painting woodwork in preparation for summer throngs, perennial in a leisure-minded, seashore-loving country that celebrates a national holiday (Dec. 8) called the Day of the Beaches...
Georgy Zarubin surveyed the ceiling and the woodwork with the detachment of a minion of George III; then the Soviet ambassador smiled a faint smile. "Yes, of course. I understand." he commented on Mrs. Henderson's little talk. "Very nice...