But the artist's affinity for this narrative, notes Carnegie Museum curator Louise Lippincott, might have been more personal.

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Will Lippincott, El Shafee's literary agent in the United States, said the timing of the revolution had made the book particularly topical.

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Now, "there are lots of little cottages with names and lots of puns, " says Bert Lippincott, reference librarian at the Newport Historical Society.

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"He was in a lot of pain and couldn't sleep, so he did a lot of his work at night, " Ms. Lippincott says.

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"We're starting to hear discussions of small pieces of some manufacturing contracts being moved back to Mexico, " says Christopher Lippincott, analyst at McDonald Investments in New York.

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Some carmakers will hire firms like Bell's to do just that for them--Lippincott Mercer created the Infiniti name for Nissan (nasdaq: NSANY - news - people ).

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"There is a lot of talk about how the age of conspicuous consumption is over, " says Richard Wise, chief executive officer of Lippincott, a brand strategy and design firm in New York.

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"I can't wait to get on it, " said Barbara Lippincott, who's taken 160 cruises on Royal Caribbean and was among a number of the company's devotees at a Manhattan event unveiling the ship's features.

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