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...book than an ornate piece of antique furniture. "That doesn't sound very imposing," explains Halpert, "but it takes the strength of two to move it, an action we perform as seldom as possible." Though only two inches thick, the book's binding drips with metal ornamentation and decorative gilt. Houghton's two copies lie comfortably in custom-made cloth cases, so comfortably, in fact, that librarians hate to disturb them...
...Happily, the linking double-Os in the gilt banner provide a perfunctory nod to 80s extravagance. An ironic gesture? Not likely...
...course, at this point, no proposed remedy--including the idea of a "gilt lift" of 300,000 sows to hurricane-ravaged Central America--may do much for the independent hog farmer. George Bailey is one of that fading breed; he owns 650 sows in Walstonburg, N.C., and unlike corporate megafarms, isn't blessed with deep pockets. In the past year Bailey has had to use most of his savings just to stay afloat, and he still racked up $35,000 in additional debt. "We're slowly going broke," he notes. "The [meat] packers are making a killing...
...nearly the shade of her husband Miguel's Ford Thunderbird. And it certainly caught the attention of the Joneses. "The neighbors didn't like it. They took out chairs, put them in the driveway and just looked," says Sanchez. "The expression on their faces wasn't nice." It was gilt by association. The neighbors tried to be fair (it was Sanchez's home, after all) but felt as if their own homes had been redecorated. "Oooh," says neighbor Olivia Sandoval. "It's no good for the block. All the houses look the same, and this is different...
...store itself is long and narrow, with ablack & white tiled floor, dark green and redwalls, a black painted ceiling, and gilt moldings.To the left is a long cigar display containinghundreds of fat stogies, a smoker's hall of fame.On the right is a long counter dis-B-14Gregory L. Hart '01"MY GIRLFRIEND SMOKED AND I COULDN'T STAND THESMELL. I STARTED SO THAT WE WOULD BOTH SMELL...