Word: penning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Porcupine Pen Holder--losing pens it will stop...
Note: All the items mentioned above are in fact available at shops throughout Harvard Square. At the Coop you can find the "Once Upon a Potty Doll" for $11.95, the Porcupine Pen Holder, the lingerie items--at various prices--and the singing reindeer. The lotion dispensers and the feline nailbrushes are available at Billington and Stover's Drug Store on Brattle Street, and you can find the Turkey Cat Snacks, the Dinosaur Egg Soap, and the Tarot Cards at Urban Outfitters...
...surfeit arises from the sheer size of the show. Its catalog lists 748 items, ranging from a corroded metal pen to a whole stained-glass lancet window from Canterbury Cathedral. It covers manuscripts, paintings, maps, jewelry, seals, coins, heraldry, enamelwork, ceramics, armor, textiles, architecture and a great deal more besides. It traces the patronage of five Plantagenet kings and has a lot to say about how works of art were commissioned by the nobility and the great merchants, executed by their makers and read by the audience. It wanders off into didactic byways and outlines, among other things, the changing...
...very simple puzzle--with four balls in a circular maze--caused a craze in the 1880s almost on the scale of the Rubik's Cube fad a century later. The object was to put the four balls in the center of the maze, or place the "pigs" in the "pen...
...Soviet Union whom he has not seen in 15 years. In a sense, though, Brodsky has never left Russia. Its language shapes his thought, and its landscape glitters throughout his poems: "I was raised by the cold that, to warm my palm,/ gathered my fingers around a pen...