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...always teach The Great Gatsby just after the end of summer, when the Long Island light has lowered to copper streaks, the "inessential houses," as Fitzgerald called them, have been closed and boarded, and Gatsby is dead again. He is dead every autumn, and I take a melancholy consolation speaking of him to my college students after everything he yearned for is irretrievably gone. That, of course, is the heartbreak of the novel--the yearning to be young forever and to redo, remake. And the yearning does not get more manageable simply because one can do nothing about...
Hollwein's design would bring put an undulating copper facade in front of the structure. The front wall would be made of glass, and the other sides would be coated in bronze-colored metal. A courtyard would be accessible from both Mt. Auburn and J.F.K Street...
...unearthed in 1st and 2nd century tombs. The sites Hawass opened in 1999 became known as the Valley of the Golden Mummies, for the gilded masks and chest plates that cover many of the interred. An additional seven tombs opened this year revealed 102 more gilded or painted remains. Copper bracelets, obsidian decorations and even what appears to be gaming pieces and dice have been uncovered as well. All told, more than 10,000 mummies may be buried in the ancient necropolis...
...Ditto (George Newbern), is Bull's Luke Skywalker, out to escape Grandpa's musty clutches. In the year's most cornball TV speech outside a convention, he urges his Rolex rebels to "try investing in yourself for once! [Become] the hero of your own life!" What is this, David Copper Futures...
...through the hype, and you're looking at a potpourri of the same active ingredients. There are antioxidants for preventing skin damage from exposure to the sun, copper peptides for stimulating skin repair and hydroxy acids for sloughing off layers of dead skin. Wheat germ and barley extracts often serve as natural moisture barriers...