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...items showed the abandoned Harvard custom wherein younger students served upperclassmen their meals on a twice-daily basis. The exhibit’s final theme, “Rule (Breaking) and Religion,” established unapproved behavior as a long-standing temptation for Harvard undergraduates. Gold buttons and pewter jewelry, dug from the dirt between Matthews and Grays, showed that Harvard students were more than willing to break the College’s Puritan “modesty” laws for the sake of good fashion. Alcohol and tobacco were also widely consumed by early Harvardians, despite prohibition...
...building where her room is located was even built. And although it is likely that Harvard never lived in the room, it is replete with 75 years of artifacts left by previous scholarship recipients. From age-old furniture to Harvard paraphernalia, alumni have left behind items such as a pewter stein from the Owl Club or Let’s Go travel guides, according to the Harvard Magazine article.Lala, who won the John Eliot Scholarship and will live in Jesus College, founded the Harvard Interfaith Council as a sophomore and worked in the health policy office of Senator Edward...
...Yabu and Pushelberg created this subtle detail in Four Seasons Tokyo, completed in 2002, was to commission a local artist to build translucent white-onyx slabs framed with metal and finished to look like antique Japanese pewter screens for the lobby and lounge. "So much design is about exaggeration," says Pushelberg. "We're interested in a narrative approach, researching where our clients come from and using forgotten techniques from the past...
What separates Bruckheimer shows from the competition is a big-budget ethic. "I remember trying to imagine the world of the show in preproduction," says CSI: Miami star David Caruso. "My wife and I were driving toward the set, and we saw these four brand-new pewter-colored hummers. Then we realized they were for our show, and we said, 'That is Jerry Bruckheimer.'" The CSI set could serve as one of the country's best crime labs, since it boasts cutting-edge equipment donated by publicity-seeking manufacturers. Bruckheimer films might be mocked by other producers for being simpleminded...
...Dave Eggers for real? it's hard to tell sometimes. He declines most interviews. He is the proprietor of a mysterious store in Brooklyn that sells, among other things, cast-pewter bird's feet and jars of dirt. He once staged the death of TV actor Adam Rich, former star of Eight Is Enough, as a hoax...