Word: curious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...round-figured Khashoggi, who could pass as an amiable neighborhood shopkeeper, has been described as the world's richest man, though he probably never was and certainly is not now. He sometimes seems to be dancing a curious line between fabulous profits and grim losses. What he was and continues to be is the world's biggest spender, a man whose unrivaled profligacy gilds his self-image as a grand merchant-statesman. This soft-spoken man with a gift for putting people at ease, the product of a strict Islamic upbringing from one of the world's most conservative...
...continues to grin, to fool those who watch him, his substance disintegrates and melts away. As Alice exclaims, "Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin...but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I've ever seen in my life...
Even the restrictions can serve as a way ofspreading the faith, Sadeghi says. "I think thebest way to teach is to be a good example. Whenpeople see me not drinking they're curious andthat in itself is a teaching method...
...this is all still a sketch. If we were in your shoes, reading a communication from our antique past, we might be mildly interested in the geopolitical picture, the state of the Union, the family and store. But we would be a lot more curious about the life we could not see so readily, the secrets of an era that lie like pike beneath the news, and then, on their own peculiar impulse, rise to the surface in a later time, like ours, like yours. More than that, we would like to know what it felt like to be alive...
...insistent present. Modernism is committed to turmoil and revolution, but we have grown tired of the steady diet. The result is a sensibility that roves easily back into one's parents' more stately generation, and forward into the future where the imagination revels. Such range allows the mind a curious and salutary independence of time itself, which, in a world run by clocks, is a state of grace...