It makes for a splendid period piece, the store's owner having lined the window and pavement outside the store with all manner of items and implements.
It's possible the fog will lift and we'll find ourselves in a splendid period for the United States economy, which has lately seemed stronger and more resilient than those of many other parts of the world.
The Santos Museum of Economic Botany is a splendid period piece of 1881 and is dedicated to the collection and interpretation of useful plants, displayed largely in wood showcases but subtly updated.
At the same time, not all sacred images got so reverential a treatment: some turned up in dining rooms and offices; a splendid Tang-period marble bodhisattva, one of the show's centerpieces, once stood in a music room window.
As in other courts of the period, splendid theatrical and musical entertainments were organized, mainly for the benefit of the court and the diplomatic corps, but occasionally the Madrid public was also invited or allowed to buy tickets.
In 1075, Shen Kuo wrote the Xining Fengyuan Li (; The Oblatory Epoch astronomical system of the Splendid Peace reign period), which was lost, but listed in a 7th chapter of a Song Dynasty bibliography.
Mika Gallery will show a large and splendid 17th-century Edo period Buddhist mandala, a result of many, many wood blocks.
But as a tapper he is simply astonishing, and he covers more space, and, it seems, lays down more weight, than most of the other splendid tappers of the period.
A large covered stoneware jar (1956) of an earlier Voulkos period, a splendid example of his skill with the wheel, is painted with a bold abstract design and shows the influence on his work in form and design of Japanese aesthetics and American Expressionism.
She is also adept at the telling phrase and makes splendid use of the period's vivid letters, diaries and memoirs, from John Hervey and Horace Walpole and the perceptive Fanny Burney, to the Dorset farmer's niece Elizabeth Ham, a caustic observer of "farmer George".
Teams from the center are currently digging in Seleucia on the Tigris (the largest Greek city in the Middle East), at Atra (a hugely rich Bedouin city, at its most splendid during the Antonine period) and at Nimrud.
