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Paglia, who received a Ph.D. in literature from Yale in 1972, said the dormant influence of paganism has been most acutely felt in the Renaissance, in Romanticism and in 20th century popular culture...
...only were sales disappointing, but upscale establishments like Bergdorf Goodman, spurning a line that was also available in middle-class department stores, pulled the whole label off their racks. After that debacle Halston's empire collapsed, and he eventually lost control of his name. The label remained dormant until three years ago, when Tropic Tex decided to start it up again and recruited Porcelli, who hired Duke...
...sindonologist Ian Wilson puts it in his new book, The Blood and the Shroud: New Evidence That the World's Most Sacred Relic Is Real (Free Press; 333 pages; $25), "The clear implication was that the shroud itself was, in effect, a photographic negative that had been waiting dormant, like a preprogrammed time capsule, for the moment that photography's invention would release its hidden true 'positive...
While Suharto has resisted the bitter medicine of the IMF program, Japan is deaf to foreign calls for deeper tax cuts to rouse its long dormant economy, traditionally the engine of growth for the Pacific Rim. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned Congress last week that the Japanese economy was "sinking." Asked whether Japan was doing enough to stimulate the economy, the usually circumspect Greenspan replied, "No, I think...
...poker. I never won enough to buy a car, or fly to Europe, but my earnings were enough to keep any active 16-year-old happy. Since I arrived here at Harvard, I have lived in fear of the Ad Board, so my portable roulette table has remained dormant. This period of relative inactivity has forced me to reflect on my only true passion...