Word: pining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pottery at the exclusive Bryanston School, in Dorset. After studying textile design at London's Central School of Design, he free-lanced as a furniture maker before opening a home-furnishings store, called Habitat, in London in 1964. From its rows of white crockery to assemble-it-yourself pine beds and tables, Habitat offered products designed in the modernist tradition of the '30s, a kind of Bauhaus for our house: less is more, natural is better, simple is best...
...pick up hammers and join them on weekends, and throwing parties in partly built houses to celebrate the completion of a foundation or their topping off of a roof. No, the Jersey Devil, which takes its name from a mythical creature said to threaten people in New Jersey's Pine Barrens, is no ordinary architectural firm. But don't get them wrong. Badanes, Jim Adamson, Greg Torchio and John Ringel are serious about what they do, and say it is in the best tradition of the American pioneer spirit...
...trouble was, his college teammates in 1960 included John Havlicek, Jerry Lucas and Larry Siegfried, who went on in the pros to amass 14 championship rings. Knight began on the bench, and is still on the bench. His space in the Hall of Fame has been fashioned out of pine...
...player in the early convolutions of the drama was Jim Bakker, the religious entrepreneur who reigned over the domain called Heritage USA. Nestled in the pine-carpeted piedmont just south of the border between North and South Carolina, Heritage is the third most popular theme park in the country (after the two Disney operations). It drew more than 6 million people last year to its 500-room hotel, 2,500-seat church, five-acre water park, and mock gable-fronted "Main Street USA," an enclosed mall with 25 stores and a 650-seat cafeteria...
...philanthropist," he says. After canvassing the candidates, Clint found his man: "The guy I talked into it was me." Last December he closed the deal for about $5 million and has begun modest restoration work on some of the rental cabins. Says Mac McDonald, managing editor of the Carmel Pine Cone: "What really surprised people was that he bought it to preserve it." Concedes Staunch Foe Swain: "It was a magnificent thing that...