Word: corinthians
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...live lives full of despair and disappointment," he says. He quotes the "abundant life" verse with all earnestness, even giving it a real estate gloss: "It is unscriptural not to own land," he announces. But he's doing more than talk about it. He recently oversaw the building of Corinthian Pointe, a 452-unit affordable-housing project that he claims is the largest residential subdivision ever built by a nonprofit. Most of its inhabitants, he says, are not members of his church...
...moral seriousness that still underpins 21st century sports shouldn't surprise anybody with an eye for historical continuity. The administrative codes by which most mass-spectator sports are governed were generally assembled in the late 19th century. Consequently they come drenched in what used to be called Corinthian values: gentlemanly ideals of fair play, sportsmanship and the desirability of not kicking a man when he is down. The wonder of modern professional sports, with their teenage soccer millionaires, mass migrations to overseas tournaments and stud fees running into six figures, is not that cheating should dominate the headlines but that...
...Titter, Whisper and Wink, where she was the preeminent pinup queen of her day, maybe any day. (She was also the 13th model to grace the centerfold of a new slick magazine called Playboy.) As a movie actress she had a different appeal, limited but intense. Bettie was rich Corinthian leather to connoisseurs of specialized, and at the time subterranean, erotica - the kind that showed women, dressed in black undergarments and stockings, and pumps with six-inch heels, getting spanked, trussed and gagged. But primly. This was the '50s. And primitively. No retakes; no expert lighting; no dialogue - no sound...
...Zadora? Where is my authoritative, I've-studied-this-for-years lead sentence? Please, God, let me discover an apt quotation from someone other than Samuel Johnson. You have to sound as if you knew it all along. You have to shape your column too--mostly Doric, a Corinthian fluting when they least expect it. It's work. Whatever the others say, it's work...
...Crimson Key initiation party at the Advocate. “Lemme tell you a secret,” Dick F. Williams ’01 offered conspiratorially, his Caucasian breath reeking of schnapps and privilege. “Julie couldn’t tell you a damn thing about Corinthian architecture at Widener [Library]. Fact is, there’s only one large white column at this school that she knows anything about?...