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Former Secretary of State and Maine Senator Edmund Muskie said "only time will tell" if the Democrats have really united behind Dukakis. "When you use glue, you have to wait a few minutes before it hardens--we're waiting to see if it hardens," Muskie said...
...Crimson, back to full strength for its games against Yale and Brown this weekend and Dartmouth Tuesday night, is looking to use its own form of Crazy Glue--a lightning-quick transition game--to firmly secure the Ivy League title...
Remember the image of the book as an object, as a welding of board, paper, string, glue and ink; remember the pyramids of the Egyptians, built from sand, stone and mortar: They were built to ward off time. Each individual block, though carved to protect a pharoah, was a move by man to withstand wind, water, night and other men. Each book we print adds to the monolith of similar blocks we preserve, that we stack in piles, climb on top of, burn out of fear...
...smells of ashes and mildew, Israel carefully pries at a piece of mahogany doorway molding. "You can't just come in and say, 'Hey, let's rip it down.' You have to get a feel for the construction," he says. "You have to ask if the craftsmen used nails, glue or screws...
This job is all nails and glue. Israel and his seven-man crew will remove all the doors and windows, complete with jambs and frames, from the spacious room, as well as the thick sheets of mahogany paneling on the walls. They use specially designed tools to do so. "Nobody makes tools to go backward in construction," says Israel. "We have to make our own pry bars and nail cutters to get behind paneling and under plumbing fixtures...