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...hadn't had any investment in 30 years. Trains were falling apart." Virgin introduced airline-style pricing, so that the cost of business class and peak standard-fare tickets went up while pre-booked tickets got cheaper. (A testament to the power of brand: the government forced Virgin to paint its name on the trains as a condition of the sale.) Mean-while, Virgin's two long-distance lines have ranked near the bottom in reliability among high speed lines, according to the Strategic Rail Authority. Virgin group commercial director Richard Bowker observes that in the months before last October...
...TRADIN' PAINT Adjacent cars, up to four wide, jostle for position and nudge one another in an attempt to pass. Earnhardt, renowned for his aggressive driving, was a master of forcing opposing cars to drop back...
...breaking of images) was the name of an eighth- and ninth-century movement in the Eastern church against the worship of holy pictures. In 753, the Emperor Constantine summoned a great synod to forbid image-worship forever. The synod declared it blasphemous to represent, by the dead materials of paint and carved stone, those who live with Christ. The bishops damned image-worshipers as idolators (and there is a commandment about that, is there not?). Pictures of the saints in churches were replaced by images of flowers, fruits and birds. Relics were thrown into the sea. The Protestants...
...inhaled the smoke from smoothed-out tinfoil sheets folded in two, holding a lighter beneath the foil so that the shards of shabu liquefied, turning to a thick, pungent, milky vapor. The smoke tasted like a mixture of turpentine and model glue; to this day I can't smell paint thinner without thinking of smoking speed...
...middle school. Still, the Peis?many of whom had dispersed overseas?managed to keep the house's deed in their name. In 1979, Bei and her husband quietly moved back into the mansion. Over the years, they have slowly restored the house, peeling off the concrete and paint that Red Guards had poured over the woodwork and colorfully tiled floors...