Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flaksman's performance suggested a Jaguar sports car confined to Boston traffic: though it was obvious that he was good, it was hard to tell what he could do, because of what he had to play. Conforming with the Romantic arrangement of the Vivaldi, he obviously tried for as rich an effect as possible; he used heavy vibrato and full bows. Yet, curiously, he played a lot of notes on the open strings without any false vibrato an octave above or below. He made no attempt to shape whole phrases. His tone had a thin, strained sound...
...people of Hoaimy, the Communists must have looked like winners, but the Viet Cong detachment blundered from the start. It levied taxes even heavier than those of Saigon-up to 50% of the rice harvest. The Reds preached class war, urging the poor peasants to hate the rich in a village that had no rich peasants and very few poor. The Communists also repeated the familiar line that helped bring down Diem: Roman Catholics discriminate against Buddhists. Since the few Catholics in the village lived just like everyone else, this argument got nowhere either. Next, the Reds closed the village...
That was his passport to the comic strips, and no man ever stayed longer or showed more zany inventiveness. The Rube Goldberg machines, a byproduct of his engineering background, made him rich and world-famous. All his designs were models of ludicrous ingenuity. In his automatic stamp-licker, a dwarf robot overturned a can of ants onto a page of postage stamps, gum side up; then they were licked up by an anteater that had been starved for three days...
...with as much easy stylization and graceful gesture as the sculpted saints of the contemporary Gothic in Europe. Avalokiteshvara has one advantage to delight a sculptor: he comes in 108 different incarnations. Nepalese sculptors were equally adept at hammering out fully rounded copper-gilt figures from inside. Fond of rich materials, they cast sinuous sculpture in bronze, then fire-gilded it to an eternal luster...
...Rich Get Richer. An analysis of the Great Scholarship Lottery and why it doesn't live up to the expectations of administrators in the Financial Aid Office...