Word: baths
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...Today, no colonial weather vane or goffering iron fails to find its collectors, and the productions of traveling limners evoke an enthusiasm that might once have seemed excessive for Gainsborough. Nevertheless, most American towns looked more like Dogpatch than Williamsburg, and none of them could have been confused with Bath. The best American minds, like Thomas Jefferson, were by no means unaware of this. Jefferson in the early 1780s complained that many of the buildings in Virginia's capital of Williamsburg were rude, misshapen piles "in which no attempts are made at elegance" and that it was difficult to find...
Forty years later, one cannot be forgiven. What exactly do Pell, Dukakis and the Democrats have in mind? Perhaps they think of the U.N. as some independent world actor. Jeane Kirkpatrick, who spent some time there, had a crisper view. She called it a "Turkish bath" where the Third World can let off steam, denounce the West, air resentments and demand transfers of wealth. Its principal achievement is to generate a billion pages of paper every year. This U.N. is not even able to field peacekeeping forces in precisely the areas, like the Sinai, where they are most needed. When...
Many bond investors have been taking a bath, since the price of fixed- income securities falls when interest rates rise. In April alone, bondholders lost more than $100 billion. The pain was shared by small investors who have poured money into bond mutual funds. At the end of March, those funds had assets of nearly $310 billion, up from $142 billion at the end of 1985. The mortgage market was also hard hit by the rise in interest rates. Says Lyle Gramley, chief economist of the Mortgage Bankers Association: "Some people called it orderly panic in the bond market...
...Swedes had transferred the adrenal tissue directly into a C-shaped structure in the middle of the brain called the caudate nucleus, where dopamine exerts its primary effects. The Mexicans, by contrast, used surgical staples to anchor the cells onto the exterior of the caudate, which is continually bathed in cerebrospinal fluid. This nourishing bath may have helped the graft survive. In addition, Madrazo says, he transplanted "much more" tissue than did his predecessors...
...Fernand Leger's, testifies to this -- in A Battery Shelled, 1919, even the smoke is metal. "I look upon Nature, while I live in a steel city," exclaimed David Bomberg in 1914, and the terse machine-like signs he found for briskly moving figures in The Mud Bath, his early masterpiece of 1912-13, have a tonic decisiveness that is only magnified by the simple color scheme of red, white and blue...