Sterling silver is one of the most versatile materials in jewelry. Its affordability offers designers and consumers the opportunity to experiment with different looks and create new options. No matter what form a piece of sterling jewelry assumes--architectural or organic, polished or textured,...

Her first three albums went gold and stayed at the top of the charts for almost two years. Anyone who came of age in the sixties and wasn't mightily affected by the style and message of these three albums simply wasn't listening. The...

[The Immigrant Experience: The Long, Long Journey] has two goals. The first is to dramatize a slice of American immigration history as reflected in the experiences of a Polish peasant family upon their 1907 arrival to the New World. The second is to provoke discussion of success and self-fulfillment in relation to the American Dream. Though cut ethnographically thin, the film achieves its first goal in evocative dramatic scenes that powerfully convey the ordeal of assimilation throughout most of the footage...

For all of us who are second- or third-generation children of immigrants, the narration from the beginning of [the exceptionally beautiful The Immigrant Experience] strikes deeply in our hearts. Indeed, most of the sequences from this true story are direct visual enactments of tales we've all heard, of the long, long journey our grandparents made. Filmed on location in Greenwich Village and Ellis Island, the drama follows the arrival of 12-year-old Janek from Poland. (p. 45)