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...past 100 years, the temple's scourges have been more prosaic, though equally serious. From the 1890s to the 1930s, well-meaning architects sought to strengthen the battered Parthenon, which originally consisted of some 12,500 white marble stones hewn from Mount Pentelicus, ten miles to the north. The restorers added new iron clamps and rods to hold the marble stones in position. But in doing so, they ignored the wisdom of the Parthenon's original designers, the sculptor Phidias and Architects Ictinus and Callicrates. During the installation of the temple's original iron reinforcing rods...
...process, many of the glamour investments of the 1970s have fallen from favor, notably nonproductive "collectibles" like wine, antiques, coins and other such prosaic places to put money. The stock market is also luring funds that, through the 1970s, were going into precious metals, gems and real estate, even though their prices have continued to rise. Silver, for example, was selling in June for 109.5% more than it was a year earlier, gold for nearly 30% more. Diamonds, though, did not gain...
Reagan's prosaic and traditional Democratic opponents were nearly obliterated. Walter Mondale made it into the paper on Page 3, appearing in Detroit at a Hispanic conference. John Glenn's smiling visage was totally absent. The Washington Post is certainly not everything, but it is a fever chart of sorts...
...Minnesota Orchestra, for example, needs only for Conductor Neville Marriner to become more at home in the large-orchestra repertory for it to be a serious contender. The Dallas Symphony has one of the finest string sections in the country, but is interpretatively hampered by its prosaic conductor, Eduardo Mata. Washington's National Symphony, another orchestra with the capacity to rise, may yet regret its Faustian bargain with Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who gives it great media attention and a passionate commitment to Russian music but otherwise generally undistinguished musical leadership. Still more able orchestras...
...MORE also offers Rooney at his best. He presents prosaic subjects not only for their own sake--"where did [Manhattan's] Fourth Avenue go?"--but also because they serve as a foundation on which he constructs amusing and developed discussions. He hates weathermen, as he describes their typical broadcast. "There's ice on the roads today and many of the roads are slippery, listeners, so please drive carefully,'" Rooney wonders. "Does he think we're idiots? Does he think we don't know ice is slippery'" Horoscopes receive a similar treatment. "Cancer: This is a good time for those...