Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...embarked on a $4 million restoration project. The dramatic results were unveiled last week. Although access to the tomb will be limited for two years to scientists, scholars and visiting dignitaries while the heat and humidity of the tomb are monitored, the joint E.A.O.-Getty effort has retrieved a priceless cultural heritage and, where the paintings are concerned, one of the finest artistic achievements of the Pharaonic...
Some of those images were, in their grotesque way, priceless: a woman staggering down the street trying not to scrape her new, no-down-payment dining room table on the pavement; another lady attempting to jam her stolen sofa onto a pickup truck already overladen with loot. Modern America's great guiding principle, shop till you drop, was in process of revision; steal till you kneel was more like...
...extent to which the United States has gone towards national socialism," while another, Arthur Hugh Jameson, referring to the Wagner Act, wrote that "a labor dictatorship has been created" and could only hope "that the American people will revert back to the type of their ancestors and recapture that priceless gem of Liberty, which is never appreciated until it is lost...
...audiences can be sure that there won't be any staleness or formula presentation. He is called the last of the great Romantics for good reason: his style is freewheeling, poetic, very much the flowering of his temperament and his mood of the moment. As such he is a priceless antidote to the prevailing vogue in pianism for note-perfect but dry interpretations. Along with the Bach and the Chopin, Cherkassky plays at least one modern piece on each program, and often the most startling revelations occur in these works. Ives' Three-Page Sonata or Stockhausen's Klavierstuck...
...that the painting, worth about $50 million today, has been used by the Mafia as security for drug deals over the past 20 years. Kenneth Klug, a deputy special agent for the U.S. Customs Service, says his agency is "sure" that drug lords in Colombia's Medellin cartel "have priceless works of stolen art hanging in their villas...