Word: greened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over intersession, the dining area adjacent to the Union's main dining hall was closed as the room's venetian blinds were replaced by drapes, an indoor-outdoor green carpet was installed, and the interior was repainted, said Michael Sidabrias, the supervisor of the Union staff. Workers brought in plants on February 3, and future plans include putting up a chandelier, Sidabrias said...
Describing the green indoor-outdoor carpeting, David W. Levin '91 said that it "has its advantages--to golfers. It makes it more elite, more Harvard," he said...
...eight for $1. Car batteries, $25. Videocassette recorders, $180. Yes, but that is just the beginning of the surprises. Here comes a clerk -- whooosh! -- on roller skates. And just look at these 20-ft. mountains of merchandise, from catsup to cameras, mustard to mufflers. Disoriented yet? This is the green zone, where groceries are sold. For everything from mouthwash to antifreeze, go to the blue zone. Tired? Here, sit down on one of the convenient wooden benches and sip some free cider or coffee with other weary shoppers...
...arts, but more one of solid, practical investment, rather like that of collecting Christmas plates. Eight years ago, Stankard began encasing his flowers in a crystal block about six inches high, three inches wide. As this new form evolved, he began laminating the blocks with translucent dark green glass on three sides, giving the impression that the plants and their roots are suspended in space, released from their glass prison. The form, which Stankard calls a cloistered botanical, brought his work to the attention of collectors of contemporary glass. "He has broken away from the traditional paperweight style...
Today Lacroix has a Proustian sense of his childhood. He was taken up by a little band of mini-aesthetes: "We were like dandies, snobbish and arrogant. We might show up in green velvet suits and pink shirts and read Wilde -- anything we thought was daring." Christian was taxed with designing costumes for their amateur shows. He traces his enduring preoccupation with the turn of the century to this early research; at one point he plotted out a season-by-season directory of changes in the minutiae of fin-de-siecle fashion...