Word: artes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When Widener was built it was made of the most lavish materials available: a then state-of-the-art stack system and tons of marble and granite...
When Widener was built it was made of the mostlavish materials available: a thenstate-of-the-art stack system and tons of marbleand granite...
...Hill-themed cards. Unfortunately, the site's obnoxious registration form requires personal data, such as year of birth and zip code, before letting you send a card. For photo-realistic images, nothing tops the selection at Corbis.com which lets visitors turn any of its thousands of high-resolution art and nature images into digital postcards. The one catch: www.corbis.com prominently appears on each card, making it feel more like an ad than a simple greeting...
...from New Jersey, but I thought that nipping the idea in the bud was the sort of thing a prudent citizen did in preparing for his eventual demise. So I was surprised to learn last week that Joe DiMaggio--a man who raised preparation to an art form, a man who planted himself in center field so perfectly for each batter that he was customarily able to catch fly-balls at chest level--died without stating publicly that he did not want his name associated with the West Side Highway...
GREAT LAMINATE: For those who crave more '50s than Happy Days can provide, Temple, Texas, offers the Ralph Sr. and Sunny Wilson House. Built in 1959 by Wilson-Art's founder to show just how versatile his product could be, the house put pink and aqua laminate where none had gone before. Open to the public, this homage to plastic has just become a National Landmark...