Word: jewelers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Harvard cannot win the regular-season national or Ivy titles outright, a victory over Yale will still keep one jewel of the crown Crimson...
...million revue that opened last week on Broadway. If Fred and Ginger had been black and still able to live in that elegant fantasy world, their shows might have looked a lot like this: rows of tap dancers in tailcoats or scarlet evening gowns; vast sets like lacquered jewel boxes gliding across the floor and opening to reveal a kick line; a singer in a swing, wearing a cloak that billows 18 ft. down to the floor...
Trump was captivated by onyx and used it liberally. He had onyx baseboards installed along the walls. His own bathtub was of lilac onyx (with gold-plated faucets, of course). "Onyx is like a precious jewel," he said, "many grades above marble...
...silent four-minute ceremony that took place less than four hours after his father's death, Akihito, 55, received the imperial and state seals and replicas of two of the imperial treasures that symbolize the throne. By legend, the actual treasures -- a mirror, a sword and a crescent-shaped jewel -- trace back to the Shinto sun goddess Amaterasu. The government chose a name for Emperor Akihito's reign: Heisei, the achievement of complete peace on earth and in the heavens...
...earth as viewed from the moon. The sight of that shimmering, luminescent ball set against the black void inspired even normally prosaic astronauts to flights of eloquence. Edgar Mitchell, who flew to the moon aboard Apollo 14 in 1971, described the planet as "a sparkling blue-and-white jewel . . . laced with slowly swirling veils of white . . . like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery." Photos of the earth from space prompted geologist Preston Cloud to write, "Mother Earth will never seem the same again. No more can thinking people take this little planet . . . as an infinite theater...