Her eyes wandered to the bright tapestries on the walls, the neatly arrayed red roses on white plinths in the corners.

Tall white plinths in the Brancusi show to protect and exhibit the art intrude inevitably on Brancusi's compositions.

We can revitalize Lincoln Center - as the innovative firm of Diller Scofidio & Renfro is now setting out to do - but still recognize that if we were starting from scratch today we wouldn't mass a suite of shimmering white buildings on a mighty white plinth.

Not much, other than swim and soak up the rays alongside a statue of the Virgin Mary, placed on the beach atop a chunky white plinth in 1881 in commemoration of a local shipwreck.

A small white plinth stood centered in that circle, supporting an oil-lamp made of clear glass.

It was pulled down by Israeli authorities and until the 1990s, Soldier's Square was a patch of sand with a white plinth (remnant of the statue) in the center.

A plain white vase stood atop a severe white plinth against one wall.

Someone had placed a ceremonial brass plaque there on the dock, just in front of one of the shoulder-high wooden pilings, bolted onto a white concrete plinth that came up to my chest.

A tapering black stain that resembled an extension of the spiky shadow of the foot-high carving had trickled across the white plinth.