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...decor will remain in distinctive Upstairs style, which consists of “pinks, corals, deep jewel tones and accents of silver, gold and copper leaf throughout,” according to the press release. But there will also be new features—the release said “leopard and zebra patterned carpets will wrap the floors...

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pudding To Reopen As ‘Upstairs on the Square’ | 4/16/2002 | See Source »

...seven centuries after the frescoes' completion, their jewel-box colors faded and in some places fell off, salts rose to the surface and gilding tarnished. But the chapel's masterpieces also face modern threats. Air pollution has become a serious problem. And only eight years after the last restoration, finished in 1963, it became obvious that it had done more harm than good. Neglecting to test his materials first, restorer Leonetto Tintori used synthetic resins to fix the painted layer to the plaster. As the resins aged, they hardened and the wall could no longer "breathe." Without further treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fresh Revelations | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

...been dropped and fewer books purchased. Departmental budgets will also suffer; next year, some of the smaller departments may be combined or discontinued altogether. Especially damaging are plans to reduce resources allocated to the UMass-Amherst honors program, Commonwealth College, which since its 1997 inception has been a crown jewel of the Massachusetts university system...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: A Mess at UMass | 3/20/2002 | See Source »

...party, you should wear a tiara.” Paul Turnberg started this vintage jewelry store 40 years ago and is still behind the counter today, a cluster of rhinestones sparkling in his ear. Twentieth Century Ltd. may be unique in its glamorous genre. According to Turnberg, jewel-starved customers regularly come up from New York, where no such cavern of riches exists. It is not difficult to understand their devotion. Entering the store is like having magically fallen into the gigantic jewelry box of a demi-mondaine. There is not a square inch of space here that does...

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Night Out | 3/14/2002 | See Source »

...Harcourt; May), giving it a starred review. "Seventeen stories by the Irish-born Canadian author ransack what Donoghue calls 'the flotsam and jetsam of the last seven hundred years of British and Irish life' for razor-sharp vignettes of the fates of women in judgmental male-dominated societies...These jewel-like stories vibrate with thickly textured detail and vigorous period language. Donoghue's colorful, confrontational historically based fiction is making something entirely new and captivating out of gender issues. One of the best books of the year thus far. Like Andrea Barrett, Donoghue has staked a claim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Galley Girl: Sharpton and Seagulls | 3/13/2002 | See Source »

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