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The other is a bit earlier, from 1911, and shows long-necked Alice Toklas and stalwart, round Gertrude Stein -- both yet young -- rooted and relaxed together in favorite facing chairs of the fabled sitting room/salon at 27 Rue de Fleurus; no hype, just two people who know each other fully.
Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: SFMOMA's The Steins Collect Documents a Life of Art Collecting Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue 2011
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The other is a bit earlier, from 1911, and shows long-necked Alice Toklas and stalwart, round Gertrude Stein -- both yet young -- rooted and relaxed together in favorite facing chairs of the fabled sitting room/salon at 27 Rue de Fleurus; no hype, just two people who know each other fully.
Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: SFMOMA's The Steins Collect Documents a Life of Art Collecting Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue 2011
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With Patrick Summers on the podium, the San Francisco Opera's company premiere of Xerxes included several instruments rarely heard in operatic ensembles: the arch lute, baroque guitar, and theorbo a long-necked lute sometimes referred to as a chitarrone.
George Heymont: Going For Baroque With Handel's Xerxes George Heymont 2011
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With Patrick Summers on the podium, the San Francisco Opera's company premiere of Xerxes included several instruments rarely heard in operatic ensembles: the arch lute, baroque guitar, and theorbo a long-necked lute sometimes referred to as a chitarrone.
George Heymont: Going For Baroque With Handel's Xerxes George Heymont 2011
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With Patrick Summers on the podium, the San Francisco Opera's company premiere of Xerxes included several instruments rarely heard in operatic ensembles: the arch lute, baroque guitar, and theorbo a long-necked lute sometimes referred to as a chitarrone.
George Heymont: Going For Baroque With Handel's Xerxes George Heymont 2011
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Then, through the fog of randomized pixels, a long-necked ship with inverted goose wings painted in fiery red and gold swept past, followed by a larger, hunched crab of a vessel, which was the color of Martian dust.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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From the presence of knobbed horns, I presumed the long-necked creature to be a stylized Asian representation of a giraffe.
'Shadow of the Cypress': History, mystery and Steinbeck 2010
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From the presence of knobbed horns, I presumed the long-necked creature to be a stylized Asian representation of a giraffe.
'Shadow of the Cypress': History, mystery and Steinbeck 2010
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Mistress is beginning to look like one of those long-necked white egret birds with yellow eyes that live at the river.
Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011
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With Patrick Summers on the podium, the San Francisco Opera's company premiere of Xerxes included several instruments rarely heard in operatic ensembles: the arch lute, baroque guitar, and theorbo a long-necked lute sometimes referred to as a chitarrone.
George Heymont: Going For Baroque With Handel's Xerxes George Heymont 2011
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