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...have their own. Most elaborate of all were the pietre dure designs - fantastically elaborate inlays of jasper, lapis lazuli, serpentine and all manner of semiprecious stones, sawed into thin sheets and assembled as a jigsaw by gem cutters. Francesco de' Medici in particular, Cosimo's son, took delight in these because of his proto-scientific, alchemical interests; he was fascinated, like someone seeing pictures in the fire or Leonardo free-associating about forms made by accidental damp on walls, by how the grain of the stone suggested further pictures within the larger design...
America is right in wanting to hit Iraq hard and soon. Saddam would delight in launching a nuclear, chemical or biological first strike against the U.S., either by himself or through a third party. As he gets older, Saddam has less to lose, and the threat will increase. Britain is right in supporting the U.S. America is strong, and Britain is strong, but our European cousins are not. They also seem unable to recall that without the U.S. we would not have won World War II. I would like to apologize to America for this collective weakness. Don't call...
...modern musical, Hong Kong Nocturne from 1967, is a giddy delight?no mean feat, considering that each of the film's three singing, dancing heroines (Cheng Pei-pei, Lily Ho and Chin Ping) loses the man she loves. Under the Japanese director Inoue Umetsugu, the girls soldier on gorgeously, through a dozen songs that portray the territory as a Paris with sweet sauce: "Hong Kong is a lovers' paradise," these Chinese chanteuses warble, "Love, like mist, covers blemishes...
Bush often brags that he does not look at polls, but that is in part because he has Rove to do it for him. The two men delight in the game--a fact both the President and his staff go to great lengths to obscure. "They both love this stuff, and so they talk about it in shorthand. It's like talking about baseball," says a senior White House official. And it showed throughout the campaign: "The President knew what was in nearly every ad. He was getting that from Karl." He had a junkie's appetite for the polling...
...School of Education, Pinker denied the possibility of poet Philip Larkin’s well-known adage that your parents “f--- you up, your mum and dad / They may not mean to but they do”—a passage he quoted, to the delight of the crowd...