Mr. Grassie paints lovely small copies of photographs of 60's-style Modernist sculptures -- classic works by Tony Smith, John Chamberlain, Donald Judd and others.
Today, its gardens are among the city's jewels, with lovely statuary (copies of the original bronzes by Adriaen de Vries, stolen by the Protestant Swedes during the war), fountains, paths, benches and peacocks to feed.
True, the cloisters were drafty in winter and the heavy prayer schedule cut into your free time, but you could work at peace in the herb garden and copy lovely manuscripts in the library.
He has only a limited amount of storage space, so he is making constant evaluations: which will sell quicker, this computer paperback, published a year ago, or this handsome copy, a lovely first edition with a dust jacket, of Francis Steegmuller's "Flaubert and Madame Bovary"?
"I have copies of lovely things Tom Suozzi said about me when he was mayor about the things I did for Glen Cove," Mr. Sidikman said.
Don't be fooled by the breakout success of first-time literary author Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones (nearly 2 million copies sold).
On top of that we had our bags stolen about a week ago, so I am currently without a passport and my copy of Cricket Lovely Cricket which is now in some Mexican bandit's hands.
I went home and stared at my shelves and the four alarming piles of books on the floor and wound up pulling out two of Philip Roth's new novels, completely untouched, and a copy of "The Lovely Bones," which I've also never read.
Last month, while John was upstairs at his place baking a lovely fruitcake, I stole a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate from his basement.
