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...earliest is a battered 5th century silver votive lamp, dedicated to St. Sylvester and found, half eaten away by corrosion, in a church garden in the 17th century. From such crude, fragile souvenirs of primitive Christianity, the range expands: 10th century enamels, 11th century ivories, medieval reliquaries of silver and gold containing various fragments of sanctified bodies, and so on, to the ecclesiastic baroque and rococo confections produced from the metals of the New World...
...green overstuffed chair. A nurse helped the 81-year-old Mao stand up and he greeted the Ford family first. He was dressed in a blue-gray tunic and black slippers. His hair was gray but his face was tanned (one American wondered silently if he used a sun lamp in the chilly climes of Peking). His handshake was firm, his voice low and rumbling (somewhat like Kissinger's without the German accent...
...style but doesn't have the time or money or desire to get properly duded up. The lighting for the act also helps to create this image: during some songs, the stage is hazily backlit, giving the impression that Springsteen is hanging out on a corner under a street-lamp in the early morning, trying his best to be like Brando or James Dean; during others, garishly bright colored lights are used, lie at an amusement park along the Boardwalk...
...since regularly shopped the Canton Trade Fair and has imported nearly a million dollars' worth of Chinese products, putting some to uses for which they were not intended. Rattan headrests, a sort of pillow in China, were stood on end, wired, and−presto!−became lamp bases. But Carl Levine, vice president in charge of home furnishings, was not satisfied; he wanted the Chinese to tailor products specifically for Bloomingdale's. Lacquered boxes and fans, which were decorated with floral patterns and calligraphy, had great potential, he thought, if their makers would forget the flowers and concentrate...
...nuclear genie stubbornly refuses to return to its lamp. International conferences and agreements have tried to stem the spread of atomic weapons, but the nightmare of potential nuclear holocaust persists. Recent events, in fact, suggest that the dangers from nuclear proliferation and the atomic arms race are probably greater now than at any time since the first mushroom cloud rose over New Mexico's desert near Alamogordo three decades ago. Last week, for instance, West Germany agreed to sell Brazil facilities and technology that could enable Brasilia to develop nuclear arms. Meanwhile, both the U.S. and the Soviet Union...