Word: corlis
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...horse Pegasus have a Böcklin-like drama that is not wholly the result of judicious quotation. But quotation does rule. This Biennale has more plaster casts in it than the cellar of a Viennese art academy: the abused relics of antiquity dragged back as conceptual décor for a dying art tradition...
...make the job more manageable, the FWS has designated nine U.S. cities as official entry ports for wildlife. Freebooting traders, however, simply bypass them. For example, raw coral, used for jewelry and fish-tank décor, is barred from export by the Philippines. Yet in 1983, 540,000 lbs. of coral entered...
...Memphis quest, claims Sottsass, "implies an optimism that the body is always winning. The puritanical, Catholic approach of 'less is more' is wrong because we know that all Catholics are sinners." Yet Sottsass's domestic décor is far more spartan than hedonistic. His Milan apartment and office are simply furnished, with plain tables and black plastic chairs. Says he: "I have to be free of any outside information to concentrate. I would like to live in a monastery...
Gregory Z. Smith, a public information officer for the Arizona Department of Revenue and the originator of the amnesty idea, cor, tends that tax amnesty can also work at the federal level, especially if federal tax enforcement is increased...
...where so that the press could follow the campaign intelligently. Correspondents could not even hint of the invasion through censorship, but nobody expected them to: trust was mutual. Korea was fought without censorship. Yet James A. Bell, who covered No Name Ridge and other battles for TIME, was among cor respondents told days in advance of the landing at Inchon, which proved to be one of the great tactical surprises...