Guilty plea in rape case solved after 30 years through DNA ...

Herald Sun-Feb. 17, 2014

Greenwood fled and when help arrived, the victim was hysterical and still bound and gagged. Missing from her home were pearl earrings and $4 from her purse.

Shakespeare sucks: a potted history of Bard-bashing

The Guardian-Aug. 3, 2014

... unmotivated, surely, by any petty rivalry with the English, once referred to the Shakespearean canon as "an enormous dunghill" that contained "a few pearls".

Visit Design Legend Cecil Beaton at Home in a New Exhibition

Architectural Digest-Jun. 5, 2014

... as a costume designer, set designer, playwright, creator of fashion fabrics, ... to Bavaria's “pink and silver churches”) to Victorian chairs spangled with nacre. ... some 300,000 mother-of-pearl buttons, Beaton claimed—have been copied, too.

Explosion of Cute: Inside the Superfan Mania of Hello Kitty ...

Daily Beast-Nov. 2, 2014

... pinched back with a Hello Kitty barrette, her nails flashing diamonds and pearls. ... school girl skirts and socks with Victorian grande dame ruffles, files into the building. Live models in Hello Kitty-themed evening wear designed by fashion brands ... Nguyen of JapanLA, a Melrose Avenue pop culture shop for cute fashions.