Word: medallion
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...Engineer Tran Chan Cha, 46, has steamed the Danang-Hue run since the days of the Indo-China war, has been blown up so often that today he is nearly stone-deaf. Engineer Nguyen Tran Lo, 48, has been ambushed some 50 times, wears a Buddhist good-luck medallion under his faded blue uniform. When Lo's yellow and green diesel rumbles north from Saigon's Chi Hoa marshaling yard, his wife lights candles before an altar adorned with a gaudy bas-relief of a train steaming around a mountain...
Opting for a bare raked forestage, Annals has erected a plain wooden back-wall containing an enormous medallion, which can open to form a twelve-rayed golden Incan sun and reveal a raised acting area behind. This sun is so constructed that, in a way I must not reveal, it later contributes appreciably in conveying a feeling of horror at the Spaniards' avaricious plundering of Incan wealth. His exotic, colorful (and, at one point, tinnient) costumes for the Peruvians contrast effectively with the Spaniards' blacks and grays, only occasionally relieved by white and red. And Martin Aronstein's lighting...
...impossible from the very nature of the group, selected for its representativeness and diversity. The petition was accompanied by a covering letter that stated: "We urge you to take whatever action you think most appropriate. Write to the President yourself, sign the enclosed petition, pledge to return your medallion, sit-in at the White House, or enlist in the army...
...potter of uncommon conscience, Wedgwood supported both the French and American Revolutions, though he well knew that they would hurt his business. An ardent antislaver, Wedgwood sent Ben Franklin his historic medallion showing a chained Negro pleading, "Am I not a man and a brother?" And he became Evolutionist Charles Darwin's grandfather. At Josiah Wedgwood's burial place in the Stoke-on-Trent church, his epitaph reads: he "converted a rude and inconsiderable manufactory into an elegant art and an important part of national commerce." More than that, he annealed common clay with an uncommon love...
...Rorimer showed off a colonnaded Spanish Renaissance patio, donated by the late, former Met president George Blumenthal, and the new Thomas J. Watson library, whose 155,000 volumes make it the largest art-literature stack in the Western Hemisphere. Topping off his week, Rorimer received the city's Medallion of Honor from Mayor Wagner...