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Tree Tenements. They were elegant and graceful in flight, slow and stupid-seeming on the ground, and fatally gregarious. When they settled in to feed or rest, they would funnel down, out of the sky, filling every branch and foothold, stacking up on one another's backs a dozen deep, splintering weak branches, toppling whole dead trees to the ground. They nested in only slightly less congestion, spreading out over scores of square miles, making every tree a kind of arboreal tenement...
...lnferno, the most exciting of the canticles, reads like a scenario for the ultimate horror movie. Hell, as Dante conceives it, is formed in the shape of a funnel. Terraces circle its inner surfaces in a descending series of damnations. In the first circle, the innocent shades of pre-Christian times exist in peace. In the next four, the souls of the incontinent are tormented. Heresy, violence and fraud have their reward in the sixth, seventh and eighth circles, and traitors fill the bottom of the pit-a region not of everlasting fire but of eternal...
Clumeck, Simon's itinerant board sitter and a funnel for the thousands of scouts and tipsters who now besiege Simon; Brokers Felix Juda of Sutro and Gustave Levy of Manhattan's Goldman Sachs & Co.; Graham Sterling, a Los Angeles lawyer and an expert on the intricacies of the Securities and Exchange Commission; and Hunt President Carl Kalbfleisch and Executive Vice President Harold M. Williams, who help Simon plan overall strategy...
...favor. Not enough French impressionists and postimpressionists? Indeed, the museum has only 28 Degas, 26 Monets, 22 Renoirs, 16 Cézannes and seven Van Goghs. But that is because Rorimer is in no hurry to buy at the top of the market. Death and taxes will funnel private prizes into the public domain. Just before last July 1, when tax revisions ended the practice of deducting charitable gifts now and relinquishing them after death, 41 major donors bequeathed their collections to the Met; one so far unannounced donation would alone fill ten galleries...
...important question was whether Tshombe's bitter Congolese foes, the rebel forces of Christophe Gbenye, would be invited to present their case to the meeting. The Sudan, which has acted as a funnel for arms to the rebels, joined Egypt and Algeria in demanding that the rebels be heard. But when the vote was taken, the rebels were rejected, suggesting that a growing number of delegations felt that, whatever their personal antipathy to Tshombe, there was no alternative to supporting the legitimate Tshombe regime...