Word: fishelis
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...perhaps his single most imitated work in modern times. Cezanne, Matisse and Soutine all did homage to it in copies. Anyone who has seen the verso, as it were, of a dead ray, or skate, the commonest of sights in a Paris fishmarket, knows that the underside of this fish bears a grisly resemblance to the human face. But that sort of double meaning, with its built-in pathos, would probably have struck the artist as a bit cheap. Diderot, despite his great admiration of Chardin, thought the ray disgusting--but there's nothing to suggest that Chardin was repelled...
...saga continues. Will Richard finally outlive his welcome, now that the ladies can bring home sustenance (one fish)? Will Sean change his Swiss voting ways, now that he's been a Tool of Richard? Will Colleen and Jenna, frolicking playfully in the surf one day, give CBS the 18-34 male demographic boost of its life by looking into each others' eyes...
...Richard's days may be numbered. Susan seems ready to bolt the bloc, Kelly looks up for grabs, and now that the island's females have caught a fish, they've turned on him. Only Sean's alphabet-voting method - which was very humane, sure, until it drew Richard's gang to Jenna like sharks to blood - saved Richard's blurry butt this time...
This doesn't mean there aren't good reasons to get rid of the estate tax. For one, it penalizes generosity: if Bill Gates spends $1 million buying caviar, he doesn't pay an extra tax (beyond sales tax on all those fish eggs), so why should he pay one for giving $1 million to his kids? Proponents of the estate tax respond that it nabs income that, thanks to loopholes, would never have been taxed at all. They also argue that it breaks up large concentrations of wealth, encouraging the children of the rich to earn their...
...surly, prehistoric head 3 ft. from mine in the emerald water. He rippled his ventrals and pectorals to stabilize his dreamy suspension. I moved only my eyes at first, and then not even those. At length, not thinking, I shifted my arm on the gunwale. The motion roused the fish from its dream. It finned away and vanished into the deeper emerald light...