Word: elephantitis
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Wanda: Not at all well, Ralph. Only an elephant could miss your ponderously expressed point. I assume it's my turn.
Last week, in the mild sunlight over the Seine, in the belated blue of a dying November, the work of grooming the "elephant" for its last incarnation drew to an end. Masons were finishing the limestone slabs on its wide steps up from the Quai Anatole France. On the parapet...
Inside, the elephant seemed perfect, down to the last coat of beige paint on the last iron rosette in its immense barrel vault, arching a hundred feet above the floor. The minute hand of its floriated and gilded clock, one of the largest in France, which since 1900 had declared...
A chainsaw-carved, life-size wooden elephant was lugged away for $13,000. A 4-ft.-high red fiber-glass ball called Zargon was snapped up for $2,625. These were some of the bargains to be found at last week's auction of sculpture, furniture and potpourri from Expo...
The chapter called "Off-Beat Essays" contains an appeal to Rice from Gregg Shapiro, who begins, "I'm glad you gave this opportunity to express a personal concern. Since I'm going off to college next year, my mom says that I've got to get rid of my pet...