Word: crystallic
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...Knoxville International Energy Exposition is not a great and important fair like the great and important World's Fairs. The first of these was held in 1851 in London, where 14,000 exhibitors displayed the wonders of a new industrial age. The greatest wonder of all was the Crystal Palace. Designed by Joseph Paxton, the palace introduced a new prefabricated architecture of glass, iron and wood...
...play is set with a grace and fineness that augments the acting well. From the sexagonal throwing to the crystal decanter, the set is perfect for the aristocratic discussions it will contain (from pop psychology to the difficulty of finding good servants). The lighting, at least during the seance scenes, is good enough to prompt occasional gasps from the audience...
From the cloud of figures and proposals. Cambridge residents have a chance to make a crystal-clear statement today. By voting yes twice, they can say loud and clear that the shadowy outlines of tax reform do not make cuts to service acceptable, or any more bearable...
...League and opts to attend a performance of Saint Joan with her spinster aunt. Still later, as an Amherst student photographs his aunt's chinaware in the room, he tells her that he is doing an anthropology paper on "the eating habits of vanishing cultures" and that her crystal finger bowls symbolize "a neurotic obsession with cleanliness associated with the guilt of the last stages of capitalism...
...dangers that may lurk in their food. Saccharin, nitrates, sugar, cyclamates have all come under suspicion. Few are as committed on the salt issue as Food Columnist Craig Claiborne, who turned from salt addict to antisalt agitator after his own hypertension was detected. When it comes to the demon crystal, Claiborne goes straight to the point. Says he: "They should label salt just as they do cigarettes, saying that it is injurious to your health...