Word: priceless
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...allied bombs that hit Vienna's Albertina Palace in March 1945 destroyed nine magnificent neoclassical staterooms and reduced stretches of richly decorated façade to rubble. The museum's priceless art collection - including masterpieces by Michelangelo and Rembrandt - had been moved by the Nazis to safe storage in salt mines near Salzburg, and survived unharmed. But the former Habsburg residence became a long-term casualty of war. Postwar refurbishment, from 1948-52, was a cash-strapped compromise of gray concrete exteriors; the grand entrance was replaced by a door at the side of the building. Visitors hoping to catch...
Gitlin’s fatherly knowingness is comforting and patronizing. His insights are priceless. He analyzes how the turbulent ’60s differ from our own moment, noting how the student movement of the 1960s can be both inspirational and intimidating...
...students it implies the week following a lazy break over intersession. And although the partners in crime soon discovered the expense of buying hi-tech equipment, Harvard’s shopping period allows the intellectual consumer to pick up limitless freebies. Well, syllabi. But these free handouts offer a priceless insight into the muddled psyche of Harvard academics...
LORETTA SANCHEZ The Congresswoman got laughs and kudos in Washington for her parody of the Master-Card "priceless" ads, featuring her family, with cat Gretzky, in a red Thunderbird...
...name for an album that is painted in such dark colors) certainly has its moments. The lead single, “The Barry Williams Show” is a funky, lip-curling take on Jerry Springer-style talk shows, featuring the priceless line, “My lover stole my girlfriend / Keep beating up my ex / I wanna kill my neighbour / My daughter’s selling sex / My SM lover hurt me / My girl became a man / I love my daughter’s rapist / My life’s gone down the pan… / What a show...