Word: pewterers
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...college basketball teams are certain shades of gray, Georgetown at least seems as light as its pewter uniform. An academic coordinator, Mary Fenlon, holds the rank of assistant coach and sits on the bench looking like a cross schoolmarm. Though 7-ft. Center Patrick Ewing regularly says "we was" and "they was," he must be learning something. Senior Guard Fred Brown is asked if the championship makes him feel complete, and he replies thoughtfully, "No, I still have to get my degree." Without irony, Brown says he envisions a career in the FBI, the CIA or the Secret Service...
Lowell is a landmark of the historical awareness that HABS has fostered, a symbol that we see our past no longer exclusively in powdered wigs and pewter candlesticks but also in the gritty romance of woof, wharf and smokestack. With its coarse but handsome brick structures bordering on a web of canals, Lowell is a kind of industrial Venice without gondolas. But if its partly abandoned textile mills are to survive, they must be occupied and put to new uses. To promote interest in redevelopment, the HABS team is preparing floor plans and renderings of the most dramatic of Lowell...
...corn set" made of chromium-plated brass and consisting of a 5¼-in.-high melted-butter pitcher and salt and pepper shakers on a tray. His first popular hit was an assortment of spun aluminum accessories: vases, teapots, spaghetti sets and "sandwich humidors," all buffed to a pewter sheen. In a burst of breathless feature stories on informal entertaining and other trends, Wright was hailed as an innovator. He was catapulted to the top of the new profession of industrial design along with Norman Bel Geddes, Walter Dorwin Teague, Donald Deskey, Raymond Loewy and Henry Dreyfuss...
...scene was turned on its head. The buildings of Williamsburg, where the leaders of the seven major industrialized democracies gathered over the weekend, could be tucked into one wing of Versailles, the site of last year's meeting. Marble, granite and gold gave way to wood, brick and pewter. Vistas of canals and cobbled courtyards yielded to intimate gardens of a few square yards and dusty streets that could be walked in minutes. Wiliiamsburg is a reminder of the limits of government and the power of freedom...
...like the Americans to Old Baldie, which has adorned everything from 19th century $20 gold pieces and 20th century quarters to brass door knockers and even mass-produced "colonial-style" paper-towel dispensers. American craftsmen have featured the proud bird on such homely items as belt buckles, silk kerchiefs, pewter plates, pillowcases and coverlets, bureaus and mantelpieces. More than 1,700 U.S. crags, towns and waterways have been named for the eagle, from Eagleville, Calif, (pop. 200), to Eagle Lake in Maine...