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...missed. Organized and chosen by the Tokyo designer Hideyuki Oka, it consists of 221 packages, ranging from sake bottles to wrappings for candied papaya. All the designs have a long craft history, and some are very old indeed: one type of wooden container, tied together with strips of bark and used for carrying the raw fish on vinegared rice known as sushi, has been continuously made in Nara prefecture for more than a thousand years. But everything in the show is to this day a standard form of packaging among a number-diminishing, alas-of shops, stalls and manufacturers...
...Bulldogs possessed neither bark nor bite, and thus Harvard racked up the easiest of its seven hoop triumphs this winter, Yale, on the other hand, fell for the 13th time in 16 tries...
...application of equal dollops of the fat of a lion, a hippopotamus, a crocodile and a serpent. "Ashes of little frogs, applyed suddenly, cureth the Fall of Hair," promised another early recipe. Through the receding centuries, man has tried to treat the bane of baldness with elm-tree bark, watercress, onions, creosote, cholesterol and cortisone...
Dingo is a dirty word in the Australian vocabulary. As an adjective, it connotes extreme cowardice. As a noun, it refers to a species of wild dog, usually yellow and about the size of a German shepherd, whose bite is worse than its bark.* In the 19th century, before any organized attempts to eradicate the dingoes, they killed about 500,000 sheep a year, making them Australia's public enemy No. 1. As late as the 1920s, Anatomist Frederic Wood-Jones expressed the national attitude toward the killers. "To say anything in favor of the hated wild...
...fact, the dingo cannot bark...