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...which A stands for "Amy who fell down the stairs." Though not a recluse, Gorey avoided the limelight (he declined a 1980 Tony Award for his gothic Dracula set design). Despite plaudits from critics such as Edmund Wilson, Gorey said that to take his work seriously would be "the height of folly...
...Imagine a sculpture four feet taller than this hoop," McVearry says. That's the size of the David sculpture. The young sculptors are barely the height of the figure's knee...
Maddox's proficiency on draws and the Tigers' height advantage were crucial as Princeton dominated control of the faceoffs...
...SMALL PROBLEM Short boys often get picked on in more ways than one. According to a recent study, short boys who have academic problems in elementary school are more likely to be held back a year than taller boys with similar problems. Researchers--who found that height did not affect the progress of girls--say that adults tend to treat children at a level appropriate to their size rather than their age, and that parents and teachers should take care not to be "sizeist...
...Moscow is arresting an alleged U.S. "spy"; the next day the U.S. seizes a Russian oil tanker in the Persian Gulf on suspicion that it is carrying Iraqi oil. Anyone would be forgiven for thinking the clock had been turned back two decades to the height of the Cold War - and that's exactly the spin President Vladimir Putin's government wants to put on its relations with the West. The U.S. Navy announced Friday that its forces maintaining a blockade of Iraq were holding a Russian tanker pending tests to establish the origin of the oil on board, prompting...