Caroline Kennedy, President Kennedy's daughter, presented a beaming Mr. Ford, 87, with a silver lantern emblematic of the award.
Ms. Giffords and Ms. Kennedy, who wore a slim royal blue dress, embraced as Ms. Kennedy handed her the award, a sterling silver lantern, which symbolizes a beacon of hope.
City Deli also looks like a newfangled delicatessen with its high-tech, industrial décor, highly polished stainless-steel tables, open kitchen, brick walls, overhead vents, fans, bright lights and candles in silver lanterns.
Cristina's, the dining room is a sophisticated spot with tiny crystal and silver mesh lanterns on the tables, tapestry banquettes, cream-colored walls and alabaster sconces.
And you're sneered at if you should happen to mix up Bronze Age and Silver Age Green Lantern.
Now it is a contemporary spa retreat with interiors by the British designer Ilse Crawford, who incorporated a provocative mix of Dutch design furniture with Studio Job papier-mâché chandeliers, floating George Nelson lanterns, silver patterned wallpaper and purple velvet armchairs.
There, they'll gather in the living room to discuss what it means to be in the home, then head back up the hill for a picnic, complete with china, silver, candles and lanterns.
Among her best works are The Eagle of the Ninth (1954), The Shield Ring (1956), The Silver Branch (1957), The Lantern Bearers (1959), and especially Warrior Scarlet (1958).
A friend saw it and connected him with Marz, whose work on titles like Silver Surfer and Green Lantern in the late 1990s earned praise.
But if you had polled my 13-year-old self on Heroes I Would Least Like to See in a Movie, the results would have been: 3) Green Lantern; 2) Silver Surfer; 1) Dr. Strange.
The dining room of Vine Bistro is decorated in modern black, grey and silver, with hanging paper lanterns; it wouldn't be out of place in SoHo.
