Word: woven
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...depths of nature also rise religious images and rituals of uncanny beauty and effectiveness. At one point the camera sits in a ring of savages inside a narrow, smoky lodge of woven vines, and watches a witch doctor fling a bag of oracular bones on the earthen floor and read their patterns as Confucius read the sacred stalks of yarrow. At another it investigates the religion of the pangolin, "the animal no one may hurt," an anteater that looks like a waddling artichoke and possesses some of the metaphysical properties of the rose: an image, for the Christian mystics...
Hiroshima, Mon Amour. From the ashes of Hiroshima and the revivifying love of a French actress and a Japanese architect, Director Alain Resnais has woven the acknowledged masterpiece of the New Wave in French cinema...
Hiroshima, Mon Amour. From the ashes of Hiroshima and the revivifying love of a French actress and a Japanese architect, Director Alain Resnais has woven the acknowledged masterpiece of the New Wave in French cinema-a film that is part elegy, part spring song...
...first part of the ballet. Choreographer Balanchine tells the story of how the rug was woven somewhere in the desert: a swarm of ballerinas, supported by male dancers passing for nomad tribesmen, weave an elaborate cat's cradle of streamers, their movements as intricate and precise as the shuttling of a power loom. Then the story moves on to the Persian court, and the rest of the ballet is merely a "court entertainment,'' a kind of Balanchine variety show. In a swirl of color, foreign visitors to the court strut the stage dressed in everything from...
Guided at the airport by an unusually paternal President Charles de Gaulle, who towered a foot above him, the little visitor made his way down a 150-yard red carpet, past the lines of severely correct Frenchmen in cutaways. Then, standing on a carpet that had originally been woven for Napoleon's Josephine, he plunged into a round of handshakes in his now familiar manner-a quick look down for the hand, a look up for the owner, a short shake, and then onward. Behind him came friendly, roly-poly Mme. Nina Petrovna Khrushchev in black astrakhan coat...