Word: woven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Revel by Albert Dreyfus. A very much guttered wax candle is snuffed by a scull; the smoke issuing from the eye sockets curls up in the form of two reclining; female figures. The whole piece is stained crimson. Afroyim covers one entire wall with his New York Underground, a woven pattern of subways, sewers and steam pipes. Morris Kantor, a cutter of clothes, shows two results of painting at night; one-My Job-is a portrait of himself at work...
...citizen who goes in for marriage as a comprehensive study. He may be married in one state, bigamous in another and, after supporting his fair share of wives for a number of years, find that he has been a bachelor all his life. All these arguments Mr. Hughes has woven into a singularly tedious picture. The spectacular absurdity of his disposal of the villain (the hero throws him into a boiling Yellowstone geyser, the geyser evinces internal retching and active nausea, the villain is spewed several hundred feet in the air) provides a grotesque conclusion. One gathers that Mr. Hughes...
Such is Pa Potter. The author has woven around him a comedy unusual in its wit and penetration...
...collected rugs, he has traveled over 300,000 miles in search of his textile treasures. Some of them cost him as much as $35,000 and years of pursuit, and with the acquisition of almost every one is connected a tale of adventure or hardship. Two Seljuk " bird rugs," woven in 1550, were secured in Constantinople in 1922 and went with him through the sack and massacre of Smyrna. Hungary, Thrace, Rhodes, Asia Minor, Persia, Bagdad, Damascus-all are represented...
...failing devotion of the king into the most desperate measures for retaining her remarkable domination. While the king amuses himself with younger, prettier women, La Montespan performs the most diabolical, awful sacrifices in the belief that she can thereby hold the fickle monarch; and M. Rolland has woven this intensely dramatic material into a short, but powerful and moving tragedy. The several liberties which he has taken with fact really do, as he declares, "affirm the rights of art versus history"; the significance of the period is more clearly brought out by his logical development, than it could possibly...