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Micomonaco made it out of contestant's row and onto the actual stage by making the closest guess on the price of a refrigerator. Once on stage, he played "Wrong Price," where he was presented with three items and their prices. The object of the game was to guess which product was wrongly priced...
...Harris, establishes a home page on the Web: "Welcome to the works of the trench coat." They have become their symbol. Disguised, secure, they are free to cultivate what W.B. Yeats condemned as "an intellectual hatred." For Trench Coat Mafia members no less than ethnic cleansers, hatred becomes an object of intense study, a major, a creed. There is pleasure in it, in being on the outs with society. The boys form a Nazi fan club. They pick up enough German to boast, "Ich bin ein Auslander." They are in it by being out of it, and now all that...
...single most dazzling object in the show is neither a reliquary nor a painting, nor even a manuscript illumination. It is the chalice made by the Sienese goldsmith Guccio di Mannaia, presented to the Franciscans by Pope Nicholas IV in the late 13th century. In design and workmanship it is more than a masterpiece--it's one of the greatest monuments of medieval art, standing only a little more than nine inches high. Its base, stem and bulb are decorated with some 80 tiny and exquisitely made enamel-glass plaques, representing mythical beasts, evangelists, angels, prophets and apostles. The gold...
...believe it. That's it. We found it. This is it!"' Newport said afterward. The sonar on the salvage expert's ship had spotted 88 potential targets in the 24-square-mile area Newport had isolated after 14 years of analyzing NASA charts and photographs. The first object Newport checked out looked like airplane wreckage -- until he made out the words "United States" on the video monitor. Mission accomplished. But the mystery of why the hatch blew in the first place will likely go unsolved. Film and tape in the capsule is likely unsalvageable, and Newport estimates the hatch door...
...innermost needs: "You ought to read poetry because there's nothing else in your life that can do the job poetry does. I'm not exactly sure what that job is, but I know, at least for me, that I need it done. Poetry offers a verbal form, an object made out of words, as compensation for urgent, but amorphous dilemmas: the "mess" of remembering joy amidst sorrow or of loving the wrong person or of grief. Of course it knows that its kind of compensation is immensely limited and circumscribed, that no mere poem will bring back childhood...