Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dissent on the "Vote Yes on Question 2" editorial (Opinion, Nov. 2) by Melissa R. Langsam and Noah D. Oppenheim makes little sense. Their first objection to Question 2 is that it does not prevent individuals from personally financing their campaigns...
...house for the local kids this Halloween, if any kid would care to go near it. But the house looks too forlorn for games and too forbidding. I don't even know if I should discuss it in terms of "is" or "was," since its very existence raises the question of whether a ruined house may still be called a house...
After Bonfire, though, came the inevitable question. What next? Topping his first novel would be hard, the risk of failure and I-told-you-so reviews high. But Wolfe found the challenge irresistible. "I was 57," he says, "and I thought the eight or nine years I'd spent on Bonfire had taught me what not to do the second time. So, I proceeded to make every blunder a beginning writer could stumble into...
...chance, I was an overnight guest at the Bellagio the week Steve Wynn's $1.6 billion Las Vegas hotel with the $300 million art collection opened, and I have one question that was left unanswered even by the extensive coverage in TIME: Why didn't Wynn spend more of the $300 million on the art in my room? After careful inspection of all the pictures on the walls of our standard double, my wife and I arrived at a ballpark estimate...
...answer to my question about the art in my room, I suppose, is that it made sense for Wynn to spend the entire $300 million on what he stashed in a two-room gallery in the lobby not simply because he can charge ten bucks a shot for admission but because it gives the rubes the opportunity to say, "I hear he's got $300 million tied up in those two rooms." If you use conspicuous capitalization as your principal marketing tool, the real point of a $300 million art collection is that it costs $300 million. The occasional visitor...