标题: A Tibetan Arts Museum [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 9-2-2010 13:17 标题: A Tibetan Arts Museum 本文通过一路BBS站telnet客户端发布
Lee Lawrence, Tibet on Staten Island. Aug. 31, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704575304575297041534335102.html
Note:
(a) The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
http://www.tibetanmuseum.org/
About half down the home page:
"CURRENTLY ON VIEW
Tibetan Portrait: The Power of Compassion
On View March 29, 2009 - December 31, 2010
(b) Phil Borges
http://www.philborges.com/
(social documentary photography; People of Indigenous Cultures)
(c) Staff (stick)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staff_(stick)
(used to help with walking, as a status symbol (such as a sceptre), as a component of traditional barrel making, or as a weapon)
(d) Staten Island
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staten_Island
(one of the five boroughs of New York City; In 1609, the English explorer Henry Hudson sailing for the Dutch sailed into Upper New York Bay on his ship the Half Moon. Staaten Eylandt was named in honor of the Dutch parliament known as the Staten-Generaal)
* States-General of the Netherlands
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States-General_of_the_Netherlands
("The States-General (Staten-Generaal [in Dutch]) is the parliament of the Netherlands)
(e) statuary (n): "a collection of statues: STATUES"
All definitions are from www.m-w.com.
(f) Jacques is the French form of James and Jacob. "In French there is no distinction between a form corresponding to Jacob and a form corresponding to James. This is a perennially popular French given name, and Jacques or Jacques Bonhomme has been used (like John Bull in English) as a typification of the ordinary citizen."
(g) briar (n): "a plant (as a rose, blackberry, or greenbrier) having a usually woody and thorny or prickly stem; also : a mass or twig of these"
* For greenbrier, see Smilax
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smilax
(a genus of climbing flowering plants, many of which are woody and/or thorny; Common names include greenbriers amopng others)
(h) The Sun (New York)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_(New_York)
(1833-1950)
(i) bouffant (adj; French): "puffed out <bouffant hairdos> <a bouffant veil>"
(j) alabaster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabaster