Word: borrowings
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Anyone have a stick I can borrow...
...Harvard President Charles W. Eliot's first acts in office permitted undergraduates to borrow books from the College's shelves...
...were spread over with huge gilded mosaics, the Jumbotrons of the 10th century. "Times Square is the place of now and the place of the future," says Venturi. "An environment that is sparkling, decorative and information-giving." They predict that such public buildings as schools and courthouses will increasingly borrow the features of commercial buildings, like neon signage and shop-window fronts...
...spend it?" If you're sitting on stock worth twice your dreams, it's unlikely that higher rates will keep you out of the mall. And consider: more folks can sell stock and pay cash for a boat, a car, even a house. If they don't have to borrow, interest rates are immaterial...
...example: allied with the museums, the mass media and the marketplace, it began to wield, as early as the '70s, in Hilton Kramer's words, "a pervasive and often cynical authority over the very public it affects to despise." We live now in an age of empty "Sensation" (to borrow the title of the recent Brooklyn Museum of Art show) and debate not the subtleties of high craftsmanship but the appropriateness of public funding--talk about power!--for works that large segments of that public, not all of them ignoramuses, deplore. Strolling the latest Venice Biennale, novelist (and art critic...