Word: memorabilia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President's gift to the nation, his ancestral estate at Hyde Park, N.Y., had caught fire, the result of old, faulty wiring, which caused damage of $2 million to the 35-room house and $600,000 to furnishings. Few of the nearly 6,000 items of F.D.R. memorabilia were beyond repair. Custodians of the mansion raced in to retrieve items ranging from a Gilbert Stuart portrait of a Roosevelt forebear to F.D.R.'s mother's 3-ft. potted palm...
...Smithsonian Institution will stage six large exhibitions of Roosevelt memorabilia. The Library of Congress, the National Archives and the Corcoran Gallery will mount shows of their own. So will Harvard, the Universities of California, Texas, Illinois and at least a dozen more...
Although an international star, Stratas shuns fancy limousines after her performances, trudging up Broadway to a rambling old West Side apartment crammed with memorabilia. A multilinguist, she reads voraciously (among her current projects: the Bhagavad-Gita). At home, she munches on pecans grown on the ramshackle 50-acre Florida farm she recently bought. Her sometimes tempestuous private life, no less than her professional one, is marked by what she describes as "a restlessness, a need to explore, to find out, to learn...
...dedication to games and, it could be argued, was the dedicated one. Joe Sr. is a trim and youthful, silver-haired and hatchet-faced man, just 49, born on the same day but a year after Walsh. He is the custodian of his only child's memorabilia and his own memories. The "fundamentals" he preached to the boy were learned in the Navy, where Joe Sr. played all the games. He had filled out slowly and had been too spare to make any of the teams at Ringgold High, where Joey would star in three sports...
Once the bill becomes law in early October, Justice Minister Robert Badinter intends to turn over custody of one of the two surviving guillotines to a Paris museum, where, he predicts, "it is going to have the same attraction as the Mona Lisa." An avid collector of memorabilia involving the device, Badinter purchased the document signed by Louis XVI legalizing the guillotine for executions in 1791. The King died under the blade 18 months after approving its use. Reflects Badinter: "I don't think the machine gave him much satisfaction...