Word: comforters
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Louis Comfort Tiffany threw a party for himself to celebrate his 68th birthday. "When the savage searches for the gems from the earth or the pearls from the sea to decorate his person," Tiffany told several hundred guests at his lavish studio, "he becomes an artist in embryo." That idea informs $ nearly all Tiffany's prodigious output. As decorator, craftsman and glassmaker, he fretted over his place in history. Was he embryo or master? Artisan or artist...
...answers to those questions glow through every glass panel and glisten from every opalescent surface in "Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany," an exhibition on view through Sept. 9 at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tiffany expert and curator Alastair Duncan has assembled 72 rarely seen works for this spaciously mounted show: monumental stained-glass windows, richly patterned leaded-glass lamps, delicate hand-blown vases and impressionistic gold jewelry...
Sununu, like Bush, grew up in the shadow of a highly successful father in a comfortable home in a leafy bedroom community, attended private boarding school and displayed nary a flicker of rebellion. The crucial difference is that Bush was heir to both material and social comfort, while Sununu was always an outsider...
...than doubled last year. Brown Shoe's Naturalizer division quadrupled sales of its NaturalSport line when it added TownWalker pumps to its collection. Says Leslie Smith, a product manager at Rockport, the trendy Massachusetts shoemaker whose version is called Walking Pump: "Women are no longer ready to compromise their comfort...
Some people like to take comfort in the fact that the national debt, although swelling, is a smaller share of gross national product than it was during the years after World War II. That's true. But interest on the debt is far larger. As late as the early 1960s, when the national debt was still more than half of GNP, though heading downward, interest payments were barely 1% of ! GNP. Today the publicly held debt of $2.3 trillion is "only" 43% of GNP (up from 27% in 1981), but interest...