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...plan on writing a quick letter to my aunt in India, asking her to send me some bhindis for my forehead, some heavy gold jewelry, and a few wall-hangings of Ganesha and Krishna for my dorm room. If you lack any Indian connections to help you furnish your digs, light some incense and you'll be fine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Punching the culture club | 10/15/1998 | See Source »

...Room while painting the Boston Public Library murals. Inspired by the grandeur that the room emanated, he joined the painters of the dining room's ceiling mural and added an angel. Unfortunately, 30 years later the hotel painted over the angel while remodeling. It is also rumored that Olympic gold medalist Sonia Henning, when visiting Boston, would often have the Oval Room flooded and frozen over so she could practice her majestic figure skating routines...

Author: By Ariel B. Osceola and Raymond D. Williams, S | Title: The Hotel Story | 10/15/1998 | See Source »

...Scoop: If you re willing to shell out $100,000, then you and your lucky companion can revel in the Ritz Carlton's "Millennium Experience." This super-luxe package delivers millenial-themed keepsakes such as 18-Carat gold Bvigari watches for him and her, a set of two Baccarat flutes, a magnum of Taittinger champagne, a chauffeured Jaguar (or Mercedes) for the weekend, and a signature gift from each Ritz-Carlton hotel reflecting the culture and character of the region. Better book fast, only one couple in each of its 35 locations worldwide...

Author: By Ariel B. Osceola and Raymond D. Williams, S | Title: The Hotel Story | 10/15/1998 | See Source »

...gold medal that McMullen received has a profile of Archimedes--the great Greek mathematician who discovered a method of calculating pi--and the quotation "Transire suum pectus mundoque potri" meaning "Rise above oneself and grasp the world," according to a press release from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chaos Work Earns McMullen Fields Medal | 10/13/1998 | See Source »

...many jazz musicians found themselves marginalized by rock and soul. Then in 1970 Miles Davis received the first gold record of his life, for Bitches Brew, a sonic eye opener that experimented with electric instruments and rock and funk rhythms--a strange, primal, remarkable album. Soon, however, a whole generation of musicians was squandering its talents on increasingly vapid (though profitable) jazz-rock hybrids that came to be called fusion. Known today as smooth jazz, or as "that crap they play when Regis and Kathie Lee go to commercial," fusion continues to thrive; it even has its own Billboard chart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Don't Call It Fusion | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

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