Word: porcelain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...discover our destination, a six-story red brick building with no visible address, appeared completely devoid of life. A note scribbled on the door instructed us that the films could be found in the rear of the building. As we tiptoed over broken shingles and eyed an obtrusive porcelain toilet next to a dumpster, a female voice said, "The Revolving Museum is over here...
While customers ponder the extensive menu, which is five jam-packed pages long and appropriates the entire lower third of the front window, the waitstaff serves them tea from an ornate porcelain pitcher...
...Washington's false teeth. (No, not wood but porcelain). Step into his military field tent. (Pretty comfy.) Read two of his billets-doux to his beloved Martha. (He's no Robert James Waller.) The objects are all featured in a charming exhibition of artifacts that have never before left Washington's Mount Vernon residence and that go a long way toward humanizing the dour and frosty image of our Founding Father. The show, in honor of the bicentennial of Washington's death, will make its way around the country for all of 1999. What the collection also reveals is that...
...leaves are down and wet enough to muffle bootsteps. Color gone from everything, except from larches and pines and, if it counts as color, the chipped-porcelain white of birches, ghosty in November dusk. It is just cold enough and bleak enough to call up a tribal recollection: an imminence of winter death in the air and desperation for warm meat to survive--the Neolithic memory that makes hunting poignant...
...over crowd requests to play only the singles that received radio play. Two of the most powerful moments occurred when they deviated from the typhoon of pop hits. With just an acoustic guitar, mournful vocals and a single spotlight, Griffin silenced the crowd with a beautiful, delicate rendition of "Porcelain." Later, Griffin stopped the concert in order to playfully explain the lyrics of "Happy Day, MeMe", which was inspired by the joy he felt waking up to the still-sleeping face of a loved...