Every bit the wild-haired academic, with big silver glasses tucked behind bushy gray sideburns, he lives with his wife, Frances McConnel, and their cat, Lulu, in a one-story house cluttered with movies, books and boxes — one of which contains a trove of letters from an old friend who has since become one of the most cautious and analyzed politicians in America.
It is the sort of house in which one might expect to come upon human remains or the makings of a mail bomb, though the impression is immediately dispelled by Howatt himself — a gray-haired Geppetto type with silver glasses on the end of his nose.
If you have dark hair, silver glasses may look strange on you, the same as black glasses may look weird on someone with blonde hair.
You see it in Irish silver, glass, furniture and architecture.
The Mint Museum of Art holds important design exhibitions, and this show of furniture, silver, glass, ceramics and other works is a cornucopia.
The dome of the shrine is plated with gold, and within it the walls and roof are covered with polished silver, glass, and coloured tiles.
"A Taste of the Collection," early-19th-century silver, glass and ceramics typically found in American homes during that period; through Sunday.
This is expressed, for example, in the tender craftsmanship and reverently updated traditionalism of a Seder plate made of silver, glass and mahogany by Amy Klein Reichert.
"He went through so many phases of design -- textiles, furniture, silver, glass, architecture, even now to conceiving at an urban scale.
The museum's celebrated American collection, now in a refurbished Street Hall, is a cornucopia of silver, glass and ceramics, with bowls, plates, creamers, beakers, bottles, vases, flagons, pitchers and teapots virtually spilling out of display cases.
"As the Nazis terrorized Jews across the city, the movers swaddled the Gallias' furniture in blankets and wrapped their silver, glass and ceramics in layers of tissue paper," Mr. Bonyhady writes.
