Word: jewellers
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While the elks seethed, the hippies did their thing. They restored many of the Victorian jewel-box buildings (the entire town was named a national historic district in 1963) and established tough, low-growth zoning codes. Fifteen summer festivals, including one for mushrooms, sprang up; the eleven- year-old Telluride film festival is one of the most respected in the U.S. Radio station KOTO still plays the marching music. "Some days you can hear 6 1/2 hours of Bob Dylan," says Actress Susan Saint James, who came for the film festival and decided to buy a house five years...
Like the Royal Navy and India, the pound had always been a jewel in the British imperial crown. But last week the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had to rush to rescue the once proud pound from sinking below $1 in value. The pound has always been something of an anomaly in international currency markets. While it takes several deutsche marks or French francs, and hundreds of Japanese yen, to equal one U.S. dollar, the British pound is the only major Western currency worth more than a dollar. In 1949 a pound was worth $4.03, and as recently...
...Paramount Theater in Oakland, or gleaming, high-tech edifices like Davies Hall in San Francisco and Meyerhoff Hall in Baltimore. Last week in St. Paul, Architect Benjamin Thompson, the designer of Boston's Faneuil Hall Marketplace, unveiled a stunning combination: the Ordway Music Theater, a $45 million jewel overlooking the Mississippi that is one of the handsomest public spaces for music in America...
...JEWEL IN THE CROWN (PBS). With understated urgency, this 14-week series (which runs until March) sketched a sovereign vision of the long, sad twilight of the British raj in India...
...Britain earlier this year, Jewel became a fashionable rage and a national addiction. Each week it held 8 million viewers hostage; it sparked a revisionist debate in the press about imperial guilt and glory; and, in the end, it was almost unanimously acclaimed. Jewel's subject may seem more distant to American viewers. But they would be well advised to set aside their Sunday evenings for the next three months to follow this uncommonly rewarding series. There could be no truer memorial to Scott's quiet masterpiece and no grander elegy to the ambiguous power of the Empire...