Word: arcing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sheik Mohammed purchased his 50% share in Arazi from Paulson six months ago. Sheik Mohammed had tried several times before to buy the horse through intermediaries, but Paulson refused. Finally, during last year's $1.5 million Arc de Triomphe at Paris's Longchamps racecourse, the Arab prince pressed Paulson face to face, asking him to name his price. Trying to come up with a figure that would be too high to be taken seriously, Paulson proposed $9 million for half the horse; to his surprise, Sheik Mohammed immediately closed the deal on a handshake...
...night, this city comes alive. No more Tour Eiffel, Arc de Triomphe or Notre Dame. No lines of tourists speaking broken French, no hordes snapping away with their instamatic cameras. Paris by night is a complete vacation in itself. You don't have to see the Louvre or the Bastille to enjoy this city of lights...
Where Puryear is altogether marvelous is in the pieces that speak directly and in a closely disciplined way for their own substance. Among these is the spectacular arc of Night and Day, 1984, half white and half black, a wooden effigy of the track of the sun. Especially there is the delicately ordered construction based on a nautilus shell, Bower, 1980. Its wooden web is as precise as the skeleton of an aircraft wing and yet is imbued with a promise of shelter: one would be happy to crawl inside it and rest. With this piece, Puryear's desire...
Junior center Debbie Flandermeyer tallied a game-high 18 points and freshman Nikole Cronk contributed 14 points. Cronk was 4-4 from beyond the arc...
Cronk sparked the team during the first half with her sharp-shooting from beyond the three-point arc. The guard tallied 15 points in the game--all treys...