Word: woven
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...works like Zaga, 1983, or Cantileve, 1983, when one gets down to the detail, begin with a profusion of animal and botanical spare parts that Graves has cast directly in bronze. The things in her delirious lexicon of shapes include the fiddleheads of giant ferns, fragments of woven rattan, dried anchovies, pig intestines from the Chinese market below Canal Street in New York City, leaves of the Monstera deliciosa (another bow of homage, this time to Matisse, in whose late works that indoor plant is a constant character), broccoli stems, bamboo fans, the seed pods and roots of lotus, gourds...
Laid out like a cross, San Salvador's four broad avenues meet at the Plaza Barrios, the heart of the downtown shopping area, where the hawkers sell a colorful variety of woven crafts, baskets and other goods...
...move: in one day she visits Brancusi, Stein, Pound, Joyce's wife Nora, and has dinner with Jean Cocteau and Man Ray. Bryher proves to be a great traveler who mingles comfortably and is resourceful under pressure. In London, during World War II, she had cloth woven from camel hair collected at the city zoo. She also tried to raise chickens during the blitz, but the birds ate their own eggs. Just as well. H.D. would not eat chicken for fear that it might be cat. What is a biographer to do? - By R.Z. Sheppard
Nevertheless, Ruddygore is eminently entertaining, filled with the usual assortment of rapid-fire patter, romantic solos, and melodramatic ditties by the choruses. Perhaps one of the least known operettas, it has an intricately woven, often convoluted plot that contains more horror and violence than standard G & S fare such as the Mikado and H.M.S. Pinafore. This cast tackles the play admirably, cleverly filling the set with country dances, mystical developments, and mad cavorting by deranged characters...
...play's limited action poses a comparable problem. Because so little of Old Acquaintance involves actual physical movement, the play depends heavily upon the strength of its dialogue to carry it through. Moreover, since much of the undercurrent of hostility and sarcasm is subtly woven into the script, delivery is often more important than substance...