Word: hoarding
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...entails a certain patronizing of reality. From belling 'out there.' the world comes to be 'inside' photographs. Our heads are becoming like those magic boxes that Joseph Cornell filled with incongruous small objects whose provenance was a France he never once visited. Or like a hoard of old movie stills, of which Cornell amassed a vast collection, in the same Surrealist, spirit: as nostalgia-provoking relics of the original movie experience, as means of a token possession of the beauty of actors. But the relation of a still photograph to a film is intrinsically misleading...
...They were out in their garden, digging a hole big enough to bury a pirate's hoard of doubloons. In that cavity they were planning to plant ye turkey. 'But why on earth, or rather in earth?' I wittily enquired. 'Because of Bocuse,' they explained. 'In the gospel according to St. Paul, on page 258 of his newe book-the great French chef relays the recipe of his grandpere, to wit: bury the bird for two full days before the feast. Digit...
...High School, plays fairly regularly for the Terriers. Todd Johnson, a three-time All-League center for Browne and Nichols, and Brian O'Conner, a 6-ft., 3-in., 211-lb. defenseman from Hamden, Connecticut and a member of two high school state champion teams, round outs B.U.'s hoard of scintillating youngsters...
...exporter of rice. There is food available, but so much is reserved for export that the standard meal has become fish gruel and banana leaves. Even that is served in communal dining halls, which helps accomplish two government aims: to break up family life and limit opportunities to hoard food, which is needed for escape. Family names are being wiped out in the new order. Cambodians are now referred to by their controllers and the government simply by surname, with the term met (comrade) in front. Comrades are expected to do what they are told. The alternative, aside from death...
...feared the U.P. would nationalize its Chilean branch--funded rightwing and fascist groups that tried to provoke chaos, preparing the way for a junta whose major bid for support came in the guise of promoting security for the middle and upper classes. The CIA also paid small shopkeepers to hoard goods, and truckers--who comprise one of the best-paid sectors of Chile's labor force--to go out on strike, virtually shutting down Chile's transportation system. And the CIA was instrumental in organizing the army officers who led the coup d'etat: the presence of a U.S. fleet...