Word: jaded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...justify their lives to other men they had known 50 years earlier. Some of them tackled this task with the pomposity you would expect. Richard Walden Hale "finds that the best hobby is owning plenty of New England land." Ernest Blaney Dane wrote that "although his collection [of fine jade and crystal] is not as large as the one in the Metropolitan Museum, he believes it is finer...
...RADIANCE OF JADE AND THE CRYSTAL CLARITY OF WATER: KOREAN CERAMICS FROM THE ATAKA COLLECTION, The Art Institute of Chicago. Korean artisans might have initially borrowed pottery techniques from the Chinese, but their subsequent creations rivaled those of their giant neighbor and became the envy of Japan, which dispatched military expeditions to raid Korean kilns and enslave its craftsmen. On display are 114 elegant and serenely beautiful objects including vases, ewers, incense burners and porcelain water droppers. Through...
Backed by Murdoch's dollars, Mirabella hired two former Vogue colleagues -- her creative director, Jade Hobson Charnin, and features editor, Amy Gross -- to develop a voice that would speak to mature, contemporary women. Hypersensitive to comparisons with Lear's, she feels her feature offerings can compete with Vanity Fair's and the New Yorker's. The latter is still a stretch, although recent contributors -- including Francine du Plessix Gray and Roy Blount -- have toughened Mirabella's edge...
...Mexico's President Carlos Salinas de Gortari made sure all the stops were pulled out for this exhibit. The country's biggest media mogul, Emilio Azcarraga, put up the money. An unprecedented tonnage of basalt, clay, obsidian, jade, gilt, inlaid wood and painted canvas has been moved out of Mexican churches, museums and private collections -- sometimes over protests by local communities that resent having their saints or gods borrowed by the government. On view are 365 objects, starting in l000 B.C. with a five-ton stone Olmec head and finishing in 1949 with Frida Kahlo's The Love-Embrace...
...South Korean tobacco monopoly is trying to keep up with the American firms by using the same advertising ploy--targeting specific sectors of the population, such as teenagers and women. Since the opening of the market, the South Korean monopoly has developed and marketed cigarette brands called "Lilac," "Jade" and "Rose," especially intended to lure women into the habit...