Word: romes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...culture that had scarcely seen a Westerner when the century began--now seeming as visible, and even as fashionable, a figure as Richard Gere. John Cleese speaks out for him in London, Henri Cartier-Bresson records his teachings around France, Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys interviews him in Rome for Rolling Stone. In the past few years he has opened 11 Offices of Tibet, everywhere from Canberra to Moscow, and last year alone provided prefaces and forewords for roughly 30 books. The 14th Dalai Lama is surely the only Ocean of Wisdom, Holder of the White Lotus and Protector...
...original Christmas spirit, which we have tended to lose sight of in recent centuries. Check out the holiday's history: Dec. 25 wasn't chosen because it was the date on Jesus' birth certificate but because that was the time of the ancient Saturnalia, when all of Rome poured into the streets for days of public revelry. Even Christianity couldn't take the urge for orgies out of Christmas. In Europe's Middle Ages, the holiday was celebrated by troops of costumed people going door to door, dancing in the streets, drinking to excess and indulging in a favorite...
Stories that make the times we live in sound like the ancien regime or the final days of Rome ought to be told gradually. Otherwise, people panic. They begin to think they can hear Madame Defarge's knitting needles clicking as head after head tumbles into the basket below the guillotine. So, writing from Manhattan, I'm going to begin by telling you folks in the rest of the country simply that, according to a story in the New York Times by Monique P. Yazigi, apartments in so-called A+ buildings on Fifth Avenue are now selling for what real...
...comes from U.S. manufacturers; she also has silver objects made in India in addition to the stainless steel in China. Prices are high--anywhere from $80 to $200 for a single place setting of cutlery--but the merchandise sells well in exclusive stores in New York City, Tokyo, London, Rome and Paris. Total sales run to about $2.5 million a year, and Lam also collects fees from manufacturers she licenses to use her designs. Art, it seems, conquers all--if accompanied by hardheaded business sense. --Reported by William Dowell/Brooklyn...
...structures in the museum's surrounding art-works -- in this case the architectural prints featured in the "New York/Rome" exhibit. The roof of the clinic structure, for example, is modeled on the temple depicted in a 17th century print by Gerard Audran of the Triumphal Entry of Constantine into Rome.. By merging his installation into the museum's high-brow art works, Avery intends to enshrine the clinic. He wants to recreate the medical world within the traditional temple of the museum...