Word: willow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think at the moment the committee is functioning for the dean to get an inside scoop on what students are thinking," said Willow D. Crystal '97, who is an executive board member of the Women's Leadership Project and a member of the group
...Corot was so popular on both sides of the Atlantic that he was, notoriously, the most faked artist of the 19th century. Corot painted 3,000 pictures, the saying went, of which 10,000 have been sold in America. His late work in particular--those silvery, atmospheric nymph-and-willow scenes like Memory of Mortefontaine, 1864, elegiac in tone and populated by rustic figures who descended from Claude Lorrain's shepherdesses--fetched record prices at a time when Impressionism still seemed rather daring to most Americans, and painting posthumous versions of them became quite an industry...
...people are confused about the positions," said Willow D. Crystal '98, the assistant financial manager for RCS. "Without having started, it is hard to know how different it is going...
This vision at once encompasses symbols as simple as a 400-year-old talking willow tree, and as complex as two people from different cultures overcoming seemingly insurmountable barriers to fall in love...
Last year two Smith & Hawken marketing executives set out across the English moors in search of a man known to be the last of the withie crafters. Withies are conical willow trellises used in Britain to corral sheep "We were trekking through the most remote parts of England, and we were completely lost and it was getting dark," says Bonnie Dahan. "Finally, we came upon this man's workshop, and the withies were fabulous. It was a 200-year-old design, and he was the last craftsman who made them. So we made the deal, and we carried them...