Word: chockablock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jump-start the economy next year, according to panel members. "There's much ado about nothing here, from a broad economic point of view," said Sinai, noting that the candidates' tax and spending proposals tended to offset each other, leaving little room for stimulus. The Bush program, which is chockablock with spending cuts to pay for | tax reductions, "would make a weak upturn a little weaker," Sinai said, while Clinton's plans "would make a weak upturn no worse, but not really any better." In the long run, he added, "the Clinton program would give us more productivity and more...
...PLACE IS CHOCKABLOCK with fountains, almost all of them officially described as new-age outdoor-air-conditioning systems. Water gushes and gurgles almost everywhere. Architect Nicholas Grimshaw's pavilion for the United Kingdom, a fine, robust example of the high-tech style at which the British excel, is the grandest, sleekest Expo aquatecture of all: the whole plate-glass facade, 60 ft. high and 235 ft. long, is a waterfall. A lovely, quirkier glass-wall waterfall, the work of the New York architecture firm SITE, defines a promenade along one of the Expo avenues. For almost a quarter- mile...
PROSPERO'S BOOKS. Shakespeare illustrated by Peter Greenaway (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover). Not the British director's best film but certainly his most: two chockablock hours of Sir John Gielgud intoning The Tempest while surrounded by naked babes and boys. It's as if God lived in the Playboy Mansion. The true version of this coffee-table film is the accompanying book: script, photos and drawings...