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...thing about Americans is that if you show them how to do a dance, they'll get up and do it," says Milly Quezada, one of the lead singers in Los Vecinos. "But a lot of them think merengue is too loud and too fast. Once we soften the brass a little, add synthesizers and make the music more American, we'll get them." All right, America: hips together...
...movement piece, it is a kind of numerological Hebraic rhapsody. In the first movement, "Free-Style Events," the orchestral players improvise lustily on a seven-note scale while shouting out seven times sheva, the Hebrew word for the mystical number seven, then proclaiming "Hamishim!," which means 50. Brass instruments evoke the blowing of the shofar, the ram's horn used in sacred services; strings scuttle along skittishly; even a synthesizer chimes...
...Withington guarantee what he sells? Mrs. Lomas smiles a gentle, deal-the-cards smile and explains that in the antiques business there are no guarantees. Which does not mean there is no honesty. On a hunch, the day before, Dan Hingston, Withington's veteran auction manager, had unscrewed the brass drawer pulls of an inlaid, bowfront bureau. It was a rare piece, made around 1800, and Hingston had expected it to bring from $7,000 to $10,000. He discovered that the elaborate inlay work was modern, probably done about 50 years...
During the Revolutionary War, Harvard was taken over by 1,500 of Washington's troops as a barracks. When the students returned from temporary exile in Concord, they found that all the brass doorknobs were missing, and much of the lead roof had been melted down for bullets. Harvard subsequently granted Washington its first honorary doctorate in 1776, and the President later transferred his step-grandson there from Princeton on the theory that Harvard, still largely a school for clerics, was "less prone to dissipation and debauchery...
...home of a wealthy heiress, the five-story limestone structure had been divided into three separate shops until Lauren managed to get a 49-year lease that covered the entire edifice. Estimated annual rent: $1 million. Now fitted with hand- carved mahogany woodwork and custom-forged brass trim, and dappled with expansive Oriental rugs and sprays of orchids, the store evokes the imagined atmosphere of a London men's club or a distinguished Edwardian hotel. The display space is cluttered with props, including English saddles, bulbous trophies, top hats and a rack of billiard cues. "Lauren is the only designer...