Irabu, who passed away in July, was a veritable rock star in Japan, an ace with the frame of Babe Ruth.
Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres went to great lengths to fill the frame of a cellphone self-portrait with a veritable who's who of Hollywood stars -- including Jennifer Lawrence, Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt -- and the resulting photograph was a hit: Within minutes of DeGeneres posting the photo on Twitter, the photo racked up more than half a million re-tweets and 300,000 favorites.
Inside the projector Hafez had found a trove of small, aged, partially corroded pieces — the makings of miniature window casings, door frames, TV antennae, chandelier stems, and exhaust pipe — a veritable Lego set for a post-apocalyptic city.
Its needlepoint seat is a veritable bas-relief of American flags and cannons, and bullet fragments are visible in its frame, believed to be carved from a battlefield oak tree.
The Congregational Church in the center, or at least its most recent version, finished in 1843, is basically a blend of Baroque styles and a veritable study in "vertical authority," from its front columns to its octagonal steeple and its high, paned windows framed in turn by tall, dark green shutters.
As she lined up next to Semenya for the final, her tiny frame up against the broad shoulders and musculature of Semenya, the cameras zoomed in to capture the contrast; a veritable freak show.
A veritable Gallic paradise.
Veritable renaissance men, then?
