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...Gilles Peress gives us just his feet, dangling from the top of the frame, an acknowledgment that this bit of village pageantry has its share of the airborne sublime. A statue is carried through the streets in a Holy Week procession. Peress crops out the bearers, the better to invest the figure with an unearthly life of its own. His colors are deeply saturated reds and purples that push his shots into the realm of theatrical fantasy. These are not just pictures of a festival but equivalents of the festival spirit: flushed, headlong and maybe a bit tipsy...
...continued to invest much thought intoher children's upbringing. At the age of five,Charles still seemed to young to go to school, sothe Queen hired a private tutor. In addition tolearning the staples of most children's earlyeducation, Charles studied children in historywith his tutor...
...combines a complimentary word with an apparently innocent but actually murderous modifier. "She is still pretty," for instance, means, "She is long in the tooth" or "Good grief! Is she still around?" Other useful adjectives include "crusty" (obnoxious), "unpredictable" (bonkers), "experienced" (ancient) and "small but well-financed" (don't invest in this turkey...
Beryl Sprinkel, chairman of Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, forecasts that production will grow 10% more over the next five years than it would under the present tax code. One reason: consumers who save on taxes will have more money to spend and invest. A bigger factor is that the bill would remove the distortions that are created by the existing maze of incentives and exemptions. No longer will businessmen waste their ingenuity devising elaborate schemes to turn ordinary income into capital gains. Dollars will flow to the most productive uses rather than being diverted into agricultural enterprises designed...
...have jumped from about 10% of long-distance retailer revenues two years ago to more than 50% today. Moreover, the sudden price hikes are coming just as the carriers must further modernize their equipment to take advantage of their improved equal-access connection. US Sprint and MCI plan to invest billions in capital improvements...