Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couple dinner to benefit the Detroit Symphony. One guest will be Elio Gabbuggiani, mayor of Detroit's "sister city" of Florence, Italy, who was initially refused a visa by U.S. authorities because he is a Communist. With the mayor comes a loan of the priceless bronze Boy with a Dolphin by Renaissance Sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio. The Detroiters had thought that they had the loan of Donatello's David locked up-a sure-fire draw for the new Ren Cen-but the Italian culture ministry said...
...students rushing hectically to a Fine Arts class, the Fogg Art Museum often seems like nothing more than another passageway between lecture halls. Adorned with priceless objets'd'art perhaps, but still a passageway. For the approximately 2,000 visitors it entertains on a given weekend, the Fogg probably seems like nothing more than another museum. Impressive for a college collection, perhaps, but still only an MFA in miniature...
...Fogg is loaning a drawing to another museum, the lab may veto the deal if the work is not "stable," Beale said. As an example, Beale describes what might occur if an unfixed pastel, with pigments unbounded to paper, was transported from the building. One smudge would destroy a priceless picture, he said...
While we're talking about resembling Christ: Did Jesus wear elaborately embroidered gowns of silk and velvet, or jewelry of gold and precious gems; live in a palace filled with servants and priceless...
...this country," says Alex Haley, "we are young, brash and technologically oriented. We are all trying to build machines so that we can push a button and get things done a millisecond faster. But as a consequence, we are drawing away from one of the most priceless things we have?where we came from and how we got to be where we are. The young are drawing away from older people...