Word: vera
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...Russians. Father Roman taught a master class along with two bell ringers for the Kremlin, Igor Konovalov and Konstantin Michourovski, on Tuesday, and another will be offered at 6 p.m. tonight. Konovalov spoke about Russian bell ringing yesterday, and Michourovski will host a class on Friday afternoon. The Vera Foundry, which is making Lowell’s new bells, showed videos yesterday to a group of Harvard officials showing how a large bell is cast. When asked how often the bells cracked in the process, Vera Director and bellmaster Valery Anisimov replied, “There was an incident last...
...Interest in these items has grown tenfold in the past three years," says David Morsa, manager of the design store De Vera, which sells horns, glass insects and other artifacts befitting a zoologist's parlor. Tellingly, Morsa's title is curator, as if the store were a natural history museum. Some items are displayed in original condition, like the taxidermy eland that hangs behind the cash register at John Derian Co., an East Village boutique devoted to sea sponges, shells and other stylish scavengings. Other items have been given a contemporary twist, like botanical patterns reproduced in assertive contemporary colors...
...Vera A menagerie of glass beetles, flame-worked by Venetian artisan Vittorio Constantini, is at De Vera, a SoHo design boutique. tel: (1-212) 625-0838; www.deveraobjects.com...
...psychology and of Af-Am studies, and a personal friend of the couple. “It would be terrific if they could both join us. They’re both very good scholars,” he added.Stanford’s associate director of Af-Am studies, Vera I. Grant, said that news of Bobo’s departure would be “disappointing.”“We’re happy to have Professor Bobo and he has been extremely supportive to this particular program, and all of the energy, projects, and ideas...
...that will be available in its stores only. It already has partnerships with Este Lauder, which has created other exclusive brands for the retailer; Ralph Lauren (Chaps); skateboarder Tony Hawk; and Cuban-American model and actress Daisy Fuentes. Next up in early 2007: a blockbuster partnership with designer Vera Wang and an exclusive housewares partnership with the Food Network. Says Kohl's president, Mansell: "We're creating an umbrella of 'only at Kohl's' to highlight our differentiation. It's what our core female customer wants." For the moment, private labels and exclusive national brands account for about...