Word: herbe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contestants vie for a share of his $5,000-a-show paycheck by beating him in a general-knowledge quiz. "I've been reading the almanac over and over," says Stein. "I know a lot already, but I hope none of my family is ever a contestant." (His father Herb was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Nixon.) Stein's frequent forays into show biz and his willingness to pose for promotional photos like this one seem to indicate that although he's well versed in economic policy, it's not his first love. "To have Alex Trebek...
...kitsch. Sorry, guys: the Oscars; masters of recycling over at the Gardner, Botticelli for the first time all in one room; Herb Ritts; "Cantata 2000" (well, you either loved it or hated...
...Museum of Fine Arts. This year the esteemed institution ditched Winslow Homer and went pop. The season opened with the potpourri contemporary art show, "Face and Figure," a conglomeration of New England artists and world-renowned avant-garde figures. Souls were sold for a Herb Ritts exhibit and Roy Lichtenstein offered his take on Chinese landscape painting...
...registered nurse, and I became interested in alternative medicine a while back when I learned about medical uses for plants I grow in my garden. I hesitantly tried a few things. They worked! For two years, I coped with seasonal allergies and tonsillitis by using the herb echinacea and calendula tea. I have seen what the uncontrolled prescribing of antibiotics can do. Through alternative medicine, I have found treatments for such things as hyperactivity, impetigo and canker sores. We should not give up on conventional medicine, but it is the true healer's obligation to present all the options available...
Journeyers will be "house" guests of craftswoman Celita Scarborough-Donaghey, spending nights in decorative teepees (each sleeps 10). They will eat native food like Apache posole (hominy and meat), learn craftmaking and native dances, listen to ancestral tales told by native storytellers and take a medicinal-herb walk. The family of Doc Tate Nevaquaya, the famed Comanche flutist, will show them how to make the wood instrument on which he played the unwritten, melodic music of his ancestors. At the Sac and Fox Powwow, members of Vetter's group will talk with representatives of tribes from all over North America...