Word: jewellers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Western imagination. During the past decade or so, they have been, more than ever, images from India's subjugated past, particularly from the British Raj of The Man Who Would Be King, Heat and Dust and Gandhi, of The Far Pavilions, A Passage to India and The Jewel in the Crown. These are echoes of an era when Third World nations did not proclaim their right to be like their colonizers but were romantically, reassuringly different...
...name like no other. The Rockefeller clan connotes wealth and history, power and prestige. That was one reason the public last week leaped at a $1.3 billion worldwide offering to buy a 71.5% stake in Rockefeller Center, the crown jewel of the family fortune. The 14-building complex located in midtown Manhattan includes the art deco Radio City Music Hall and the RCA Building...
EXHIBIT C: Tyrone Hayes' flamboyant outfit would have been well suited to the rock-'n'-ready atmosphere of New York's Danceteria. Sporting a Prince coif and pointy, sparkling shoes, the crowning jewel of Hayes' snazzy saturnalia was a pair of unlinked handcuffs, which he wore as arm bracelets...
...Robuchon. He tends to favor a pointillist shimmer of color, sometimes achieved with tiny droplets of tomato sauce dotted from a knife point to rim a sauce of grass-green pureed spinach or by flecks of herbs and vegetables added to a terrine of rabbit set in a pale, jewel-like aspic. Wielding a tiny round cutter that he found in Japan, Robuchon scoops pinpoints of ivory apple and jade avocado to be tossed with lobster for an intriguing appetizer salad, and he lards snowy codfish with slivers of pink salmon before braising the combination...
Since the ENA board's decision to sell, potential buyers have been lining up like antique dealers at an estate sale. Although Clark considers the News the crown jewel of the company, bidders seem more enticed by ENA's highly profitable television stations in Washington, Tucson, Oklahoma City, Austin and Mobile. (ENA also owns nine newspapers in California and New Jersey, and radio stations in Detroit.) Rumored potential suitors include CBS, Hearst, Washington Redskins Owner Jack Kent Cooke, the Tribune Co. and Wesray Corp. (headed by former Treasury Secretary William Simon). Another major contender is considered to be the Gannett...