Word: designations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mint apparently thinks it's doing us a great service. "Rarely, if ever, in the history of the nation's coinage has the public played such an important role in the design of a new circulating coin," the Web page brags momentously. "Please consider each choice not only as a potential coin design...but also as a work of art that will exist in the public consciousness for hundreds of years...
Admittedly, it is exciting to help pick the new design. But as I evaluated the choices last weekend, I felt the hypocrisy eating at me. Which image of Sacajawea did I prefer? No. 14, where she looks dark and almost manly, with a large nose and braided hair? Or No. 98, where her features are duller and softer, with her baby on her back? And what about No. 100, where we see her whole, thin figure, one arm pointing to the west, mountains in the background...
Emerson went through a six-month design training program before achieving designer status...
Staffers meet at the end of August to plan the holiday decorations; by October, the design is concrete...
...holder of a painting and drawing degree from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, she says she finds window design an appropriate release for her creativity...