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...jewelry: it dictated a rule that great stones should be placed in self-effacing settings. And because jewelry complements fashion, it is a fickle medium; when designs become outmoded, they are melted down and the stones reset. The result is that jewelry settings strive mainly to secure a gem to a finger, a wrist, a neck or an ear-no great challenge for the creative artist. Says Graham Hughes, art director and organizing secretary of the goldsmiths' show: "Wars, taxes, burglars and fashion have all conspired against the serious jeweler...
...Avventura looking for La Dolce Vita you will see no more than film clips showing people with too much money and too few principles, to whom everything is pointless. But you will also miss a story finely chiseled into a gem of photography...
...shrieking "Stab her once more!" at the news that Klytaemnestra had been struck down. But the performance also was a reminder that Elektra no longer has the almost physical shock value it possessed in Strauss's time: overlaying the stark story is a thin coat ing of German Gemütlichkeit that too often turns passion to mere posturing. What redeemed the Met's Elektra was a splen did job of conducting by Joseph Rosenstock and the singing of Soprano Borkh, who rose triumphantly over the raging orchestra with rich, ringing power...
...especially in stately old Georgetown, where an outlandish real estate boom was well under way. The big attraction was proximity to the Kennedys' home on N Street-even though the Kennedys will soon be moving to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Home sellers take delight in burbling that their little gem is "just nine blocks from the Kennedys," and the closer the address, the higher the price. One brick row house across the street from the Kennedy home-in a bad state of disrepair-is priced...
...church at Kells in the county of Meath. In that year, according to one chronicler, the great manuscript, "the chief relic of the Western world," was stolen. When it was found a couple of months later half buried in the ground, its gold, gem-studded covers were gone...