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...dress are rarely encountered. Buddhism flourishes: Marxist reservations notwithstanding, men still don the saffron robes of priesthood for a time and rise before dawn to walk through the morning mist in search of alms. Well-off Laotians may apply for exit visas and generally receive them. Items such as enamel spray paint, light bulbs and vitamins, all unavailable in Hanoi, are in plentiful supply. "Sure, the market is full of clothes and medicine," laughs Luang Prabang Merchant Chan Manee. "This isn't Viet...
...million. Presented to his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna by Nicholas II in 1914, the 3⅝-in.-high egg is made of intertwining gold belts and platinum mesh set with diamonds, sapphires, rubies, emeralds, topaz, quartz and garnets. The surprise inside is an oval plaque of gold, pearl and enamel on which are painted the profiles of the five royal children, all of whom were to be shot, along with their parents, by the Bolsheviks...
Occasionally Levine's imagery does hit the mark, such as her description of an awkward new couple who, "having chewed through the enamel of their date," find only "the raw nerve hanging in the air before them." Unfortunately, however, such insights are few and far between. More often, Levine's ideas collapse under the weight of her evident reverence for Harvard. Levine went to school here, She should know better...
...hallmark of the Kohler Co. ever since 1873, when Herbert's grandfather John Michael Kohler and a partner opened a foundry to make farm implements in a small town north of Milwaukee. In the early 1880s, Kohler had the idea of coating cast-iron horse troughs with enamel and offering them to farmers as bathtubs...
Soon the company was importing top craftsmen from Europe to design elegant plumbing fixtures. In 1929 several Kohler products, including a black enamel lavatory with a marble counter top, were displayed at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the mid-1960s, the company brought bold colors to the bathroom with tubs and toilets in deep shades of red, blue and avocado. Nonetheless, when Herbert Kohler became chairman in 1972, he decided that plumbing had not reached its potential. Says he: "I felt we could innovate with shapes and colors to change the whole function...