Word: priceless
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...lady's new lease on life originated as a fragile short story by Bertolt Brecht, and Writer-Director Rene Allio sketches it on film with the ease and delicacy of an artist who knows the value of priceless old things. Insurance against the occasional pangs of creeping senility is provided by French Stage Star Sylvie, a clear-eyed, quick-stepping, 81-year-old charmer who plays the title role with no pauses for sentimental nonsense. Whether cruising serenely up and down an escalator or boldly offering a well-weathered wrist to a perfume saleslady, Sylvie exudes the quiet...
...launched from the moon would be in transit to the earth for more than 30 hours, ample time for them to be detected, identified and destroyed by an anti-missile system. As for the moon's economic potential, any metal or mineral found there would have to be priceless beyond anything on earth to make it worth exploiting. Some experts figure that the cost of shipping material back to the earth could run to roughly $500,000 an ounce...
...Postmaster General), plunked down on a delicate antique chair-and crashed to the floor. "It's a good thing that wasn't the President," said House Speaker John McCormack. A few minutes later Kennedy entered and seated himself. He, too, wound up in a pile of priceless splinters...
...writing the highly flawed Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It just before he was able to fashion Twelfth Night, the last of his pure comedies and the only one that arguably achieves perfection. Our Stratfordians have to date offered two highly flawed productions of this priceless play; perhaps they too will be able to approach perfection on the third...
...taste for architecture and a liking for the decorative arts. As a boy, he made a candlestick on his own lathe; as a freshman at Harvard ('27), he had already begun collecting rare Rhodian pottery. At the Met, he became a medieval specialist, presided over the Cloisters, a priceless museum, literally from the ground up: Rorimer preceded the masons by building gunnysack forms to guide them. At the time of his death he was planning the new $5,000,000 American wing...