Word: inlaid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inspected the statue of himself, 120 feet high. He saw the enclosed lake surrounded by buildings that were designed to represent the cities of the empire. He admired the pillared arcade that stretched for a mile, the dining rooms paved with porphyry, the ceilings of gold and fretted ivory inlaid with jewels. "At last," he said, "I am beginning to live like a human being...
...panel--a series of inlaid walls and ancient colonial doors still in use--shows the passage of time richly through layers of pastel paint. A Pepsi logo can just be noticed disappearing under splotches of local color...
...Louvre des Antiquaires in Paris, where an inlaid l8th century commode starts at $10,000, tourists are bidding on practically everything. "The Americans are in the process of buying out the entire French patrimony," complains a haughty young dealer who is doing his best to help them. "Everything, from the 12th century to the 20th, absolutely everything. And prices? There is no limit." France has a wide variety of luxuries, and despite the new exchange rates, Parisian prices too remain pretty luxurious. As one survivor puts it, "Paris has gone from the ridiculous to the merely exorbitant." For oenophiles...
...board is green and white floor tile, inlaid into the table. Green and white are what they use in championship play, Roach has explained. "You stare at a red and white board for four hours, and you'll go blind. I don't know why they still sell red and white boards in dime stores." His checkers are red and butterscotch, instead of red and black, because "black is nauseating...
...ancestors resembled argon, the author explains, because it is an inactive gas: "They were inert in their inner spirits, inclined to disinterested speculation, witty discourses, elegant, sophisticated and gratuitous discussion." Like argon, the Piedmont Jews behaved eccentrically, never combining with other elements. They spoke the rough Piedmontese dialect inlaid with Hebrew --"sacred and solemn, geologic, polished smooth by the millennia like the bed of a glacier." As deftly translated by Raymond Rosenthal, the oddities of speech are a delight. So is the "inexplicable imprecation" for which Levi's great-grandfather was famous: "May he have an accident shaped like...