Word: gems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scientists, a piece of amber with nothing trapped inside is not so exciting. For artists and their patrons, however, it is an uncut gem. According to Grimaldi, Stone Age artisans used amber found on beaches of the Baltic Sea 10,000 years ago to carve amulets, pendants and tiny figurines. Indeed, Baltic deposits were Western civilization's primary source of amber at least as far back...
...book is a technothriller, we wouldn't expect lucid, evocative prose, although Davis does present us with the occasional gem: "He cut the corpse's intestines with the sangfroid of an obstetrician clipping a baby's navel cord..." But at other moments Davis lapses into tiresome literary tics, for example, the Amazing, All-In-One Speech Formula: within a few pages, we see people pleading, muttering, snapping, intervening, erupting, venturing, uttering in horror (a personal favorite), inserting furrowing brow in non-comprehension, half-gasping, rebutting, speaking sotto voce (a diving officer, no less), barking, snorting, and chirping...
...Baseball] owners don't do anything to promote their players. [Red Sox slugger] Mo Vaughn--he's a gem," Skwar said. "Everything that's good about an athlete, Vaughn personifies. But I don't see the Red Sox going out there to promote...
...personally, came to achieve a profound appreciation for the Quad. Hilles Library is a gem, bus station-esque vending machines and all. The Quad dining halls are among the best one campus. And the tranquility of life away from the Square is a delight...
...equally successful attempt to affirm gay dignity, the current issue also contains the following gem, quoted in The Crimson: "Truth in Advertising? "The poster originally read 'Come hear Barney Frank'.. Later his name was blacked out and the word 'faggot' written across it..."" Apparently, Peninsula believes that in service of the twin goals of truth in advertising and affirming gay dignity, we should call all gays "faggots...