Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beauty, Garbo had a curious androgyny, and carried with her an invisible sign that said "Look, but don't touch." Leigh was unmistakably feminine, but she also seemed distant, as if she were covered by glass, like any other priceless work of art. Pagett, by contrast, is both sensuous and voluptuous, a creature of fire and earth. Her face is marked, as Tolstoy said of Anna, by a "persistent animation." Compared with her predecessors, her features are less than ideal: her eyes have a slight goldfish bulge, her lips are too full, and her cheekbones are uncommonly high...
...credits are interesting only because they show that the best people, working with priceless material, can make mistakes, and Royal Heritage is more often than not a royal bore. The art work is generally not shown to advantage, Wheldon is a lackluster narrator, and the phalanx of royals should have been marched by in double step instead of lingering for a chat...
...protested Polish-Hungarian World Federation President Karol Ripa. These-and worse-outcries, along with demonstrations at the White House gates, were raised again last week by Hungarian-Americans at Carter's decision to return the Crown of St. Stephen to Budapest. The legendary symbol of Hungarian nationhood, the priceless gold crown is fitted with rubies, and displays exquisitely detailed enamel portraits. Scholars say that Pope Sylvester II gave the treasure to Hungary's first King, Stephen I, for a Christmas gift in the year 1000. It has been stored at Fort Knox, Ky., after it was handed over...
After plastering London with handsome SAVE THE STUBBS posters, the Tate managed to collect $900,000. By November they were still short, when aid came from an unexpected source. Philanthropist Paul Mellon, who recently gave much of his priceless collection of 18th and 19th century British paintings to Yale, had been considered the most likely foreign buyer if the Tate fell short. But Mellon, a self-styled "galloping Anglophile," felt the paintings should stay in England. He contributed four paintings from his private collection, two Vuillards, a Bonnard and a Giacometti, to a benefit auction. They went for about...
...under the prodding of New Hampshire Congressman James Cleveland, the two sides have settled on a compromise that should serve the state's economic interests while at the same time protecting one of its priceless treasures. Interstate 93, a major north-south route that stretches from the greater Boston area toward the Canadian border, will indeed cut through the Notch. But instead of the usual four lanes required by Washington-which picks up 90% of the tab if the highway meets federal specifications-regulations will be relaxed. To prevent the widening that would have meant filling in lakes...