Word: gems
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Drink until you can figure out this gem of dialogue: “Ted, you’re not dead!” “I know! I fell out of my armor when I hit the ground...
WILL LEO'S FILM BREAK THE ICE? Leonardo Dicapriois giving gem execs the jitters. He plays a diamond smuggler in The Blood Diamond, a Sierra Leone--set drama that depicts how gem sales funded African civil wars in the '90s. De Beers says it will spend $15 million to counter publicity its execs believe will hurt sales around the film's winter release. In other words, they're finally spending their profits from J. Lo's engagement rings...
...Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. RISD boasts a small but fine museum whose eclectic collection includes classical statuary, paintings by Edgar Degas, Mark Rothko and Georgia O'Keeffe, and blown glass by alumnus Dale Chihuly. On the city's south side is an oft-overlooked gem: Johnson & Wales University's food-focused gallery in its culinary college, where recent exhibits celebrated the American diner and the august history of Mr. Potato Head. With a culinary school in town, of course there's good eating. Federal Hill - center of the city's large Italian community...
...stalls of Smithfield Market in central London, about 80 of the diamond world's most powerful men meet here. Each client is led into a second-floor room. Coffee and tea are offered. An attendant comes back with what looks like a yellow-and-black plastic lunchbox. Inside are gem diamonds of all varying types and sizes. There are no negotiations over price, only an implied choice: Take it or leave it. These events are called "sights," and the host is De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. The stones passed out here represent slightly fewer than half the total carats released...
...don’t destroy the estuary to build a beautiful park. The Lamont Reference Room is a gem that should never be replaced...