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<div>At 2:04 PM -0400 7/6/01, Mark_Mandel@DRAGONSYS.COM wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>The curmudgeon awakens to cudgel the
Boston _Globe_.<br>
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Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 08:00:35 -0400<br>
From: Mark A Mandel<br>
To: editor@globe.com<br>
Subject: Life at Home<br>
<br>
Reading today's lead "Life at Home" article ("With
Their Own Hands",<br>
7/5/2001, p. H1, by Rachel Travers) I thought, "An arbor covered
with<br>
candles, out in the garden? Maybe indoors? That's incredible!
That's...<br>
strange." And then I looked again at the last line of the fifth
paragraph,<br>
pronounced "candle arbor", and said "That's *supposed*
to be<br>
'candelabra'."<br>
<br>
Get your language right, please. It's our language, too.<br>
<br>
-- Mark A. Mandel</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> Framingham</blockquote>
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<div>Wonderful, Mark Let us (or me, anyway) know if they print
your comment. I do think you're being a bit harsh on Ms. Travers,
though--a candle arbor would provide just the right mood for spending
quality time with one's power-mower...</div>
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<div><font color="#000000">"Meanwhile, Richard Parker Bowles,
brother of Camilla's ex-husband,<br>
Andrew, said that from the beginning Camilla approved of Charles'<br>
marrying Diana while she remained his power mower."<br>
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<div><font face="Helvetica" size="-1"
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<div>P.S. If anyone else was curious, here's the complete
context of the citation Mark caught, courtesy of Nexis (this was,
Mark will be relieved to hear, the ONLY hit on "candle
arbor" listed on Nexis,</div>
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<div>The Boston Globe</div>
<div>July 5, 2001, Thursday ,THIRD EDITION</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>SECTION: LIFE AT HOME; Pg. H1</div>
<div><br>
HEADLINE: IN STEPS, A HOME, FAMILY ARE FORGED<br>
</div>
<div>BYLINE: By Rachel Travers, Globe Correspondent<br>
</div>
<div>LINCOLN - Scott Burk has known since he was 7 that this plot of
family land was where he wanted to live when he grew up.<br>
</div>
<div>Now 44, he and his wife, Lucinda, have quite literally made the
place their home. They felled the trees for lumber, cleared land for
the foundation, collected rocks for the fireplace, and built the
house together.</div>
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<div>Each step of the way, as they figured out what needed to be done
to create their 2000-square-foot house and home, their mutual
response was always, "I can do that." Money was no object
because they didn't have much. Being resourceful was always the
challenge. This is the Burk approach to life: trade, barter,
conserve. It has worked remarkably well.</div>
<div><br>
"We knew what we had to do," said Scott. "It was more
than the normal building project; we did it all."<br>
</div>
<div>With a blacksmithing forge in the old foundation of the barn
area, before there was a structure or a roof, Scott even created the
hardware he would need. Ultimately, all the drawer pulls, hooks,
hinges, shelf brackets, andirons, curtain rods, lantern holders,
thumb-latches, ladles, kitchen utensils, even a candle arbor were
made by hand.</div>
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<div>Handmade, no less, and why not? Nothing tackier than a
store-bought mass-produced candle arbor, I always say.</div>
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<div>larry</div>
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