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...notice a disturbing trend. While contractors built 1.45 million new houses in 1994, making it the busiest period in six years, they are finding their most recent units hard to fill. According to the National Association of Home Builders, only 7.2% of its members reported a high volume of looker traffic in January, compared with 35.7% in January 1994-when severe winter weather in the Midwest and Northeast kept many prospects out of the market. "We are beginning to see a pretty sizable buildup in the inventory of unsold new homes,'' worries David Seiders, chief economist of the builders group...
Sure, it helps that she's a looker, at least by presidential-spouse standards, but looks alone don't cut the cake. Or, as her husband would say, that dog won't hunt. (Whatever that means...
...bizarre and convoluted process that one on-looker observed "is like something out of Saturday Night Live," employees of the city's Election Commission worked until 12:35 a.m. this morning to formalize the tally of first-place votes from Tuesday's election and to redistribute Wolf's surplus votes...
...along slowly, just like bugs. The yellow ones must be taxis. They moved so slowly." So, for that matter, does Phaedrus' narrative pace. Far too much of Lila proceeds like this: "Then she came in the door. Sad. She was really looking old. She used to be a real looker. Getting fat too. Drinking too much beer. She always did like her beer. She better take care of herself...
...Where other art was concerned, Moore (like his lifelong friend and patron Kenneth Clark, who arranged for him to be an official war artist in World War II and was thus partly responsible for the sculptor's best-known early work, the underground-shelter drawings) was a great looker and rememberer. Certain works were fundamental to his art. A stone carving of the Mexican rain-god Chacmool gave him the crankshaft rhythm of shoulders, waist, pelvis and thighs that would surface in his own figures from the late '20s on. Cezanne's ponderous and sculptural Bathers spoke...