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...rotary hoe is (a) a subcommittee of the Rotary International, (b) a folk dance in a "hoe down," (c) a type of spike-tooth harrow, (d) a Cultipacker used in no-till agriculture, (e) a farm implement used to loosen soil after planting...
Aldrich's choice of Cambridge in this epoch belies the apolitical face he presents us. Not only was there an abundance of exuberant self-confidence in those years, but the student body was tip-top as well, all boys of good blood and fine manners, up from Eton and Harrow or straight from their private tutors. Back then, you simply did not have to trouble yourself with great numbers of people less confident then you, people like the sons of workers, or women, or the other outsiders referred to in England as "Wogs." They must eave been grand old days...
...meditation on cosmic energy as in Turner. It is not "romantic." Especially, it is not a vision of property, such as Rubens painted. What it offers is a numbing pressure of material substance. The plain stretches away under the winter sky, its bleak horizontality interrupted only by crows, harrow and a plow. Nothing could be less picturesque...
...money be collected? That, said New York Assistant Attorney General Gus Harrow at week's end, "is our headache, not the court's." Both Stamos and Levine are men of modest means, and though Bernard Reis owns a Manhattan town house and an art collection, it is not likely that more than a fraction of the $9 million could be extracted from...
...American assets would probably not satisfy the judgment. In setting the contempt fine at $3.3 million, Surrogate Midonick said that Lloyd could pay it off by returning the paintings he sold to European investors and dealers in defiance of the court's 1972 injunction. But, says Harrow gloomily, this effort to make Marlborough disgorge may not work: the Rothkos involved are now worth more than $3.3 million, and it may be cheaper for Lloyd to pay the fine...