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...huge drinking cup in the form of an armed three-masted carrack, nearly 3 ft. high, done in silver gilt, complete down to the last cannon and sheave, its decks and rigging swarming with 74 tiny sailors and passengers. In detail if not, perhaps, in sculptural grace, it out-Cellinis Cellini...
...landlord had sued to have her evicted, contending that he needed her $390-a-month apartment for his sister. Delgado, 28, a nurse's assistant, at first refused to move. Eventually she settled out of court, accepting her landlord's offer of a little cash and a 30-day grace period in which to find a new home. But when she began apartment hunting, she encountered some unexpected resistance. One landlord objected to her children. Another did not want to take on a "welfare case" with a record of refusing to pay her rent. Finally, Delgado discovered the source...
...place for comparatively small shops. They can often best handle the needs of small to medium-size clients, which might get lost in the shuffle at a larger agency. Says Diane Rothschild, a former DDB executive vice president who formed a new company with ex-DDB Chairman Roy Grace this year: "The small agency offers the client hand-tailored, customized work." Boston-based Hill Holliday Connors Cosmopulus, with only $218 million in billings last year, won the prestigious Advertising Agency of the Year Award...
...alien culture without romanticizing or condescending. Her spare prose leaves little room for metaphor; her India emerges out of small specifics, accretions that summon up heat, hope, squalor and a vast expanse of sky. These stories do not demystify India; they pay the place tributes of empathy and grace...
...Scioto Pro Jack Grout taught Nicklaus how to play, and Nicklaus taught himself how to win, Charlie taught Jack how to lose. Since his unexpected fourth U.S. Open and fifth P.G.A. victories at the age of 40, Nicklaus has spent six mostly twilit years displaying an unerring grace (everywhere but on the greens) that brought him to the last round of his 28th Masters four strokes and eight players behind...