Word: cave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crisscross pile of bones into my hand. They're a creamy pebble grey, polished and crisp. Dave explains the significance of each tiny detail as I tick a fingernail across notches and etched grooves. My fingers and eyes draw me into a miniature world of texture--a jagged cave about a millimeter across signifies a breast bone; a ball-bearing sized nub, an ankle...
Such success brings a little creature comfort for Hamnett, Sam and young William (born in 1981), like the getaway cottage the family keeps in Majorca. It also permits the designer an occasional indulgence (her North London office, walled round with papier-mache rock, looks like Plato's cave built from a prefab kit) and a healthy dose of esthetic restiveness. "I try to be creative and earn money at it," she says. "But it's like being a painter and having a gun pointed at you. I envy Marcel Duchamp for just stopping. Though he had a rich wife." Hamnett...
Corporate Editor: Ray Cave...
...panel cites evidence that the CIA may have known about the existence of a possible diversion far earlier than it has admitted: a memo from George Cave, a former CIA official working with North on the Iran initiative, reported that Ghorbanifar, at a meeting in Paris in early March, had "proposed that we use profits from these deals and others to fund support to the rebels in Afghanistan. We could do the same with Nicaragua." But Cave told the board that neither he nor Ghorbanifar had ever mentioned a diversion...
Corporate Editor: Ray Cave...