Word: grave
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...century became the chief expression of the Greek belief in the human figure as the earthly signifier of the divine. Advancing rapidly in style from decade to decade, the kouroi appear to be the first examples of art for art's sake, their function as temple statues and grave markers taking second place to the opportunity they offered the sculptor to reach ever closer to ideal form...
...many of the country's 3.3 million citizens baffled and worried about their purchasing power. A gallon of gas that used to cost the equivalent of 16 cents, for example, now costs $1.50. Explaining the decision to change the currency last week, Economist Mario Arana declared, "Things were so grave that we had to do something. The question was whether to make it a shock or a gradual adjustment. We decided on a shock...
When the personable director of the Shady Hawkins Funeral Home, Barry-Joe Luvdwuns (Andrew Gardner), asks if anyone would like a beer-or maybe a "stiff" drink-he sets up a word-play that mentions the "grave" situation, points out that whether Denuar will be displayed in an open casket "remains to be seen," and argues for cremation as an eternal-maintenance option "with no bones about...
...improvement in the condition of America's senior citizens, there is a sharp divide between the vigorous "young old," those 65 to 75, and the far frailer "old old," those 75 and up. There also remain grave disparities among ethnic groups. Nearly a third of elderly blacks live on less than $5,300 a year. Among black women living alone, the figure is 55%. For all the creative thinking on Madison Avenue and in corporate boardrooms on how to make use of the elderly as a resource, there still needs to be a comparable response from Washington when the aged...
What made Watkins' case different, said the judges, was that he was charged only with being gay, not with a specific act of sodomy. Wrote Norris: "Any attempt to criminalize the status of an individual's sexual orientation would present grave constitutional problems." Watkins has never denied his orientation. The son of a career Army man, he admitted "homosexual tendencies" when he enlisted in 1967, at 19. Later he worked during off-duty hours, with his commander's permission, as a female impersonator. In his job rating, he was regularly praised for spit-shined professionalism. Although previous investigations had upheld...