Word: pendantically
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...have such a faraway, unformed look that some of them, only ten years later, may wonder if they were ever entirely that young. The homecoming queen that year was Rita Joyce Cook, who appears on a full page of the yearbook crowned with baby carnations, a heart-shaped diamond pendant around her neck. With two others, she was judged "Most Likely to Succeed." Rita Joyce got married after graduation, had two children, got divorced, earned a teaching degree and moved to Shreveport, La., a city that she finds "much more conservative than Salina and very bigoted." She is still "cute...
That was refreshing. But back on Mt. Auburn Street, Serendipity is having a sale on dresses, gifts, and jewelry. Pendants are all half-off, but the salesgirl reports with a sigh, "The year of the pendant is over." Has it been a year already? Well, console your-self with a pink feather duster-also half-off and the year of the feather duster has just begun...
What should the tourist buy? Certainly not Chinese clothes, leather goods or toys, which in general are costlier or less stylish than those from other countries. Chinese ivory is not so fine as Thailand's. High-quality Chinese jade is exorbitant: an inchlong pendant, for example, sells for about...
...first love affair was with Stage Designer Gordon Craig, whose electric presence is dimmed in the film to about 40 watts by James Fox. Her most celebrated amour was Paris Singer (Jason Robards), the sewing-machine heir. Singer's idea of a bauble was a ten-diamond pendant; Robards' idea of acting is to bark his love scenes tersely, as if ordering a gross of No. 11 needles. Isadora had a child by each of her lovers; both children died in an absurd and macabre automobile accident in France. From then on, it was a long bouree downhill...
...finely detailed 16th century crucifix with figures of Christ and the thieves is similar to another crucifix and house altar made in Bavaria during the reien of its devout Albrecht V for his official Munich residence. On the other hand, an enchanting 17th century heart-shaped crystal pendant with the tiny figures of Eve and the serpent, is believed by Parke-Bernet's expert, John Hayward, to be either Italian or Spanish. One of the loveliest gems in the Gutman collection is a 17th century enameled gold votive crown by an anonymous Peruvian goldsmith. It was probably commissioned...