Word: give
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Initially, a crack addict can continue to function at work. But that first euphoric kick can be followed by depression and paranoia, which the user suppresses by getting high again. So begins a cycle of compulsive binging known as "chasing the high." Five-dollar "nickels" give way to $40 "doves." Soon crack addicts are spending $200 and more every night...
...when he was 25. Giulio was approached by the Venetian writer and rake Pietro Aretino, who wanted illustrations for his Sonetti Lussuriosi (Salacious Sonnets). Giulio produced 16 drawings, each depicting a handsome couple rutting with the energy of blacksmiths in a forge, and sometimes in ways that would give you, me or Jesse Helms a hernia. These, like so much of Giulio's other work, may have come from a classical prototype: the spintriae, or tokens, stamped with obscene designs that were used for entry to Roman brothels in the second century A.D. The engraver Marcantonio Raimondi turned Giulio...
When the beer industry was in its heady heyday, brewers saw little reason to give discounts. But in these sober times, sales have gone flat, and brewers are ready to use drastic measures to defend their place in America's coolers. Last week market leader Anheuser-Busch announced an aggressive round of price cuts in response to markdowns by its archrivals, notably Miller Brewing and Adolph Coors. Anheuser-Busch will cut the prices of its major brands, including Budweiser and Michelob, by as much as 25 cents a twelve-pack to match competitors. The company says the markdown is necessary...
...pauses, seems lost in thought, then begins again, determined to make her point. "I just don't think we give enough credit to our public. The Viet Nam memorial was first seen as some sort of elitist statement. It's like you see it before you really see it. But if you don't have preconceived notions, the presence of the object will touch you in some way, and you'll be in dialogue with it. I mean, what do you do with people like Tom Wolfe? His fear of modern art is sad. He must have been flogged with...
...book that complemented it and a short documentary on the Ku Klux Klan, one of the groups whose activities the SPLC monitors. Before receiving all this, Lin knew very little about the civil rights movement. She wasn't even born when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955, the arrest that led not only to a yearlong bus boycott but also to the "official" beginning of the nonviolent movement. The first thing she remembered, and not from the time it happened, was an image of Governor George Wallace looming...