Word: dictum
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Artwork in Adams House Tunnels: I'll bet they don't have tunnels like these back in York, Maine. Adams House gives new meaning to Oscar Wilde's famous dictum that all art is quite useless...
...rare and endangered species. The only other active two-sport pro, Atlanta Falcons defensive back Deion Sanders, was dropped by the Yankees last season after several trips to the minors, but he has since been picked up by the Braves as an outfielder. There is an old sports dictum that Jackson should perhaps have studied with greater care: baseball pays more, and you get hit less...
...Thatcher Toby jugs -- ceramic mugs shaped in a likeness of her wearing a three-cornered hat -- moved briskly at $200 each when they were introduced in 1989. Then came the poll tax early this year, and sales vanished. Once Thatcher resigned, however, the orders jumped again, obeying Thatcher's dictum that the marketplace should be allowed to dictate demand...
VICTORIES by George V. Higgins (Henry Holt; $19.95). Higgins' dictum, "Dialogue is character is plot," could be no better illustrated than in his latest political novel, about a congressional election in Vermont during the 1960s, when the voters and candidates square off over the Vietnam...
...past. Friction between the various republics may reflect the conflict between Roman Catholicism and Greek Orthodoxy, or Islam and Christianity, or Slav and Turk, or Slav and German. Yugoslavs do not even share an alphabet: Serbia uses Cyrillic script; Croatia and Slovenia, Roman. As the old British dictum went, Yugoslavia is a small country with big problems -- six republics, five nationalities, four languages, three religions, two alphabets and one political party. The only change today is a proliferation of parties as well...