Word: barrelfuls
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Seen from outside, Kimbell Art Museum looks like a group of barrel vaults running horizontally across the flat terrain of Fort Worth. Five of the vaults are closed at the ends to form galleries, offices and storage space; their roofs, sheathed unexpectedly in lead, glisten like old pewter in the sun. The sixth is open, a portico opening generously toward the street (below, opposite). Inside the museum, this conversation of silvery tones resumes as the sun spills through a long slit in the roof where the halves of the vaults meet, and is diffused by a perforated deflector slung...
...questionable move because manpower training needs more central coordination, not less. The attempt was defeated in Congress, where manpower training has strong support-but for the wrong reason. Because the programs funnel money into many congressional districts, Congressmen tend to look on them as a new variety of pork barrel and vote for each other's favorite programs...
...Broach a barrel of oysters, call for sack-be merry, mighty merry! To read Samuel Pepys again in this new edition is a celebration...
...Gallo lock, stock and wine barrel are the brothers whose names are signed on many Gallo bottles...
...homo than hetero, Butley is further staggered to learn that his colleague-protégé is dropping him for another lover. To compound the bitterness, Butley's book on T.S. Eliot is getting absolutely nowhere. Butley is the human equivalent of a rotting apple in a rotting barrel...