Word: vase
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of those who worked on the story were knowledgeably specific in their selections. "An intact Jaipur vase to replace one cracked en route from the Far East," requests Chicago Orientalia Buff Pat Delaney, who covered the Midwest auction scene. Erik Amfitheatrof, who interviewed directors of Sotheby's and Christie's in London-and who began buying Japanese art while reporting from Tokyo in the 1960s-dreams of finding the Hiroshige print White Rain at Shōno under his Christmas tree. "Alas, my chances are slim," he admits. "It was auctioned at Christie's New York...
...David Mitten, a Greek vase in a crate...
Gods chase Round vase. What say? What play? Don't know. Nice, though...
Southbound, the Crescent serves dinner both evenings of the trip (the first night, until 10:30 p.m.). "Dinner in the diner/ Nothing could be finer." Well, almost. Each table is dressed with linen cloth and napkins, heavy silverware and a vase of three fresh yellow chrysanthemums. The fare runs to excellent Southern fried chicken with cream gravy, roast beef and steak; there are hot breads and lemon pie. One couple does object testily when the steward is unable to produce a corkscrew for the bottle of Moulin-á-Vent '76 they had brought to table. It turns out that...
...help maintain the illusion, she lives in a kind of time capsule. Her Hollywood apartment, which she has had since 1932, is still decorated in the style of the '30s, when she was one of the screen's highest-paid performers. A vase of fake white calla lilies stands on a white piano across from a white couch that rests against a mirror set in an off-white wall. Two 32-in.-high nude statues of her stand on the piano, a nude painting of her hangs on the wall, and there are photographs of her everywhere. Hers...