Word: jewellers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apologize, however, for the conduct of his league's official. Albert turned a brilliant athletic contest, a jewel in a great rivalry, into a farce. He ignored the laws of physics and caved in to the cries of a mob of screaming Eagle fans jammed into the packed Garden...
Bandits is its own best plot summary. Part of Leonard's consummate narrative skill is his ability to camouflage complicated exposition as casual chatter. Thus it seems only natural that Jack Delaney, 40, a former jewel thief who has done time at a Louisiana penitentiary, should wind up working at the New Orleans mortuary owned by his brother-in-law Leo. Why is it, Leo wonders aloud, that every time they get a call to collect a corpse from the National Hansen's Disease Center at Carville, Jack calls in sick? Is he afraid of leprosy or what? The next...
Wild Honey originated at Britain's National Theater. This staging reunites much of the same creative team, including Director Christopher Morahan (TV's The Jewel in the Crown) and Set Designer John Gunter, who delightfully fills the stage with fireworks, birch forests, rustic homes and railroad cars -- the last achieved with special effects cheerily akin to "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride" at Disney World. The one vital element not imported was the cast surrounding McKellen. Fortunately, the unevenness of the American replacements barely affects the savor of Wild Honey...
...What we have here in the elderly people here is a real jewel, and we don't want to lose it," said Paul Houlihan, Associate Director of UMass/Boston's Gerontology Institute and director of the project. "If we don't act now, that jewel is going to be gone--it's going to be bought out, driven out," he said...
...read "A Passage to India" and "The Jewel in the Crown." You've seen the movie "Gandhi" twice. You have Indian tapestries on your walls, and your roommates complain about the pervasive scent of incense. You love samosas, lamb curry, and tandoori chicken. And now, you've finally decided that you'd better take some courses on India...