In September, the modern-art Stedelijk — home to touchstone paintings by Mondrian and Malevich — finished a makeover featuring an eccentric new entrance pavilion that not only looks quite like a bathtub, as critics were quick to note and mock; it looks exactly like a bathtub, of some two-tier Jacuzzi sort.
Mac Rebennack, a fiercely spiritual touchstone in New Orleans, is home.
From the streets of poorer neighborhoods, even those like Harlem, which are now home to touchstones of prosperity like Old Navy and Starbucks, other reasons are offered for the peace.
That's Rosemary Harris, whose portrayal of a great lady of the British stage exiled to a retirement home was the touchstone of "Waiting in the Wings," a 40-year-old play by Noel Coward that received its Broadway debut only this season.
As Ms. Lentz raced her 1999 Plymouth Voyager — an Oklahoma Sooners red, she says — the two miles home, she passed touchstones of the deadly event known locally as the May 3 tornado, its year so ingrained in the collective mind that 1999 is understood.
For the essayist the past is less a foreign country than a home address, a lodestar or touchstone, in Phillip Lopate's words the "Aladdin's lamp which he or she never tires of rubbing".
Mrs. Bloomberg, who died on Sunday in her home in Medford, Mass., was a touchstone for her son as he rose from a modest childhood to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world.
Jonathan Zeichner, Executive Director of A Place Called Home: Calamity is man's true touchstone.
They eventually beam Stargate Command's Stargate on-board and intend to travel to the planet P3X-234 beforeturninging home using Earth's secondary gate ("Touchstone").
7. In Tallahassee, architect Bradley C. Touchstone equipped Motocross champion Ricky Carmichael's 9,635-square-foot "Florida Mediterranean" home on Lake Hall in with copper rain chains and 19th-century Thai rain jars for water catchment.
