Word: ware
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Massachusetts. Called the "HOOKERS' Masquerade Ball," the organizers are extending a special invitation to people concerned with the rights of sexual minorities in the state. It will begin at 8 p.m. at The Club, 823 Main St., Cambridge. Tickets cost $5 and can be bought in advance at Cloth-ware in Cambridge, with the proceeds going to fight for decriminalization of the trade...
When Empress Catherine II of Russia ordered a set of cream-colored Queen's Ware like the one that Josiah Wedgwood had made for Queen Charlotte (cost: £52), he wanted her to have something better. So he had the 952-piece set decorated with 1,244 hand-painted views of English landscapes (cost...
Still experimenting, Wedgwood is now concentrating mainly on a new product that he calls Jasper Ware because it is almost as shiny as jasper. Wedgwood was the first to discover that clay containing barium compounds can be more highly polished than any other and can be beautifully colored by various metallic oxides. To exploit the classical revival started by the recent excavations in Pompeii, Wedgwood is embossing his Jasper Ware with bas-relief of Greek and Roman figures...
...Ware Williamstown, Mass...
...time is the Depression, and these bouts are appropriately called pickup matches. They are not staged in rings but on barges, in factories or ware houses, anywhere working men are likely to wager a few bucks of their meager paychecks. Hard Times is a first feature by Walter Hill, who used to be solely a screenwriter (the intriguing Hickey and Boggs, Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway). Director Hill's debut is controlled and fairly confident; working at his peak, he gives a strong taste of the heel-end poverty of the times. Hill is also responsible for Charles...