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...rise of 40 - the height of a four-story building. When the Pasadena Museum temporarily allowed Di Suvero to rig a 35-ft. steel sculpture on its grounds, the only site it could spare was a corner of the parking lot; apparently the trustees feared it would chew up their lawns. The installation bills included a whopping $3,500 from the city engineer for checking the structural strength of cables and welds, in case the strung, teetering monster proved a menace to public safety...
...traditional school I came from, you just sat at a desk copying from a book and all that junk. It was a big game to see if you could chew bubble gum all day and sometimes stick it on your nose without the teacher noticing. Here you learn responsibility...
...ladies with cutesy-tough names like Muggins and Bet, ostensibly introduce interested alumni to the fine homes that overlook the coastline's coves. But, as Muggins confided to her coworkers, "Hah, I don't waste my time gushing on about all those old houses. I just let 'em all chew about their children- that's all they want to do anyway...
...baffling, Perhaps that's the best way to describe working at the CRIMSON. At first I felt I should chew gum and wear spike heels. To my relief that was not required or even expected. I could wear blue jeans and be myself although a somewhat foggy version. But oh the pain of the subtler forms of secretarial stereotype. Wouldn't it be easier, I have often thought, had it been clear from the cutest that I was going to be eaten alive, instead of being forced to sift ambiguities of kindly but well aimed jests? Consider the following secretarial...
...carrying off the mountain bit by bit is done by huge 450-ton power shovels that chew off 25-ton chunks of ore in a single bite and dump them into 75-ton trucks. The ore is then crushed and transported by 150-car, mile-long freight trains to Port Hedland, where it is loaded aboard freighters at the rate of 10,000 tons an hour. The boom has turned Port Hedland into the world's fifth busiest port...