Word: porcelain
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...store's buyer travels to countries asdiverse as India, Indonesia, Czechoslovakia, thePhillipines and China, as well as to a number ofAfrican nations. The buyer's finds--whose pricesstart at around 50 cents--are made of glass,porcelain, gold, silver, wood, plastic andsemi-precious stones in every imaginable shade andcolor...
...support parts of the stories. The teeth and bones, for instance, show etching and whitening indicative of acid. One surprise was that Czar Nicholas appeared to have had little dental care and suffered from severe periodontal disease. The Czarina, on the other hand, had highly sophisticated dental work, including porcelain crowns...
Splendors contains many objects from the daily lives of the sultans. They ate from Chinese porcelain plates with rock crystal utensils. Young princes were dressed in silk-lined caftans emblazoned with tulips and pomegranates and rocked to sleep in hazelnut cradles plated in silver and sprinkled with emeralds and diamonds. When they went to war, they donned conical helmets decorated with floral patterns and studded with turquoise and rubies, fought with ivory-inlaid muskets and swords and slept in satin-lined field tents. Even their horses pranced around in gold-plated headgear and golden stirrups...
...period will be over, and the country will be forced to compete full throttle in a 340 million consumer market. For every businessman concerned that this will mean a foreign takeover of Spanish industry, another argues that Spain can muscle its way into the big leagues. In his Valencia porcelain factory, Jose Lladro offers his 2,300 employees, 85% of them women, an Olympic-size swimming pool, tennis courts and Friday afternoons off. But the atmosphere is far from relaxed. Quality is rigidly controlled, and any worker who arrives six minutes late loses half an hour...
...what is missing is a creative re-evaluation of our understanding of the composer himself. The immensely popular Milos Forman film Amadeus effectively destroyed the image it set out to falsify: the delicate porcelain infant seated at a porcelain keyboard. But as the child prodigy gives way to the giggling imp, the relationship between the reprehensible or at least unremarkable man and his great music becomes paradoxical. And, ironically, the popular conception of Mozart has been shaped by a film in which the composer is a supporting actor...