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...their rarity alone, Apostle spoons stir the imagination. The Clark Institute's set cost around $30,000; another, inferior set is expected to fetch $15,000 at New York's Parke-Bernet Galleries later this month. The spoons have sculptured knops at the end of their handles, portraying the saints. Each Apostle bears his symbol, or the tools of his martyrdom: St. John holds a cup symbolic of the poisoned wine he was ordered to drink; St. Bartholomew is shown with a knife to signify his being flayed alive; St. Simon carries the saw that sundered...
...full extent of the damage still cannot be estimated. The effect of the heating oil, for example, cannot be predicted until its chemical components are completely determined. Unlike American heating oils, this oil is of an inferior grade; it is black, thick, and totally unrefined. Restorers have had considerable experience with the oils from lipstick which tourists often use to smear their initials on the major monuments. Lipstick oils, they have found, sink into the porous surface of the stone and are very difficult to remove. But no one has had any experience with the effect of this crude heating...
...this book rests on statistics, it effectively states its case: a falling life expectancy in U.S. males, an infant-mortality rate that ranks eleventh in the roster of civilized nations (behind even Czechoslovakia), a medical educational establishment that not only fails to meet the numerical need but sometimes licenses inferior and undedicated...
...except for Hatfield's "Unchained Melody," which he only got to after a five-minute build-up of bad jokes. At one of the emotional moments of "Lovin' Feeling" Hatfield suddenly stopped singing and smirked, "Ooo, let me outta here." And in "Soul and Inspiration," in any case an inferior imitation of the first song, Hafiteld stopped before he came to the spoken "baby I can't make it without you" section and quipped, "Okay, bring out the Oscar." Maybe the songs embarrass him so much that he has to let you know how silly and cute he feels singing...
...worst, U.S. provincialism always contained an element of pride that its classical European prototype never had. In Europe the provinces were provinces by virtue of conquest or because a single city-be it Paris, Rome or London-so dominated an entire nation that the outlanders were automatically relegated to inferior status. The U.S. was founded by a bunch of provincials-and triumphant ones at that...