In that case, TS Production and a related company, TS Merchandising, charge that Mr. Hollings has tried to profit illegally from his association with the project by releasing two CDs, "The Secret Symphony" and "Journey to the Secret: Stone, Strings & Udu".
Known as tombo-ḽa-Venḓa (literally: Venda stone), strings of annular beads constituted the most common bead type listed in the account book of Manuel de Gama (n.d), an Indian-Portuguese trader whose trading-post was located between Magoro Hill and Elim (see map, Fig. 1).
To reflect the variety of materials sculptors use -- glass, metal, stone, wood, string -- Mr. Barros said he used different techniques when making his portraits.
Like Egyptian hieroglyphs, whose code was indecipherable until the rediscovery of the Rosetta Stone, the string of 1s and 0s on a floppy is meaningless in the absence of a set of computer instructions for translating them.
There was an undeniable spell cast by paintings like "Street Scene," a close-up view of a curved railing with round stone bollards strung along it like beads, with an eerily empty city street visible in the background.
The 53 sculptures on view at the arboretum vary in size and shape, including metal works small enough to tuck into a bookcase (25 such pieces are in the Wisner House gallery), imposing compositions of large slate-gray stone slabs strung on rods, and tall wooden forms that call to mind animated stick figures.
Shaki is a glory: wooden and stone houses strung either side of a steep mountain river, a grand caravanserai-turned-scruffy hotel and a richly decorated khan's palace, outside of which a man with a stuffed wolf charges one manat to make the bulbs in its eyes flash weakly.
A bullroarer (a heavy stone on a string that produces a deep roaring sound when whirled) is sounded outside six times and then brought in and applied to the patients.
Early-spring sunshine sharpened the edges of gables, mullions and gothic arches in the pale stone of houses strung across green slopes and cottages lining steep narrow lanes.
The gravity of Ste.-Geneviève's exterior, as Mr. Levine has pointed out, comes from the minimalism of its design: unbroken ledges run the length of the long facade at the cornice and between the two floors, with simple stone garlands seemingly strung from the lower ledge over iron roundels, or knobs.
