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...colossal stones, carefully assembled and ground to fit together. A mass of dead stone, an impressive monumentality of construction, which once served majestic ends now beyond our reach, a huge structure with such a modicum of useful space inside. Inside -- the mummy, Lenin. Outside -- the wind of the desert. Sand. That's the image...
...provides a convincing sales pitch. After the 1987 stock-market crash shook investor confidence in securities, con artists began pushing such alternatives as rare coins, gold, oil and gas leases, and diamonds. One Tulsa-based telemarketing company cleaned up by selling shares in a "secret process" for converting volcanic sand on Costa Rican beaches into gold. A swindler who had been convicted of selling shares in a nonexistent gold mine continued to solicit new investors from a pay phone in his Wyoming prison...
...label 1989 the year of ethics," said moderator David Sand. Sand, vice-president for what he said was a "socially responsible" investment group, the Franklin Company. "Yet for all the good intentions, everyone will find the world is full of grey areas...
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. David Lean's 1962 biopic, starring Peter O'Toole as adventurer T.E. Lawrence, was the first and finest epic of ideas. Now the film has been lovingly restored to 217 minutes, every one of them glorious. Military strategy was never so movie compelling. Sand was never so sexy...
...little too cold for swimming, but the ocean and sand are beautiful and the sunset is spectacular. Whether you're looking for a romantic week in a cozy bed-and-breakfast, or a place for leisurely bicycling through tumbling sand dunes, the Cape is a great, and relatively cheap, spring vacation spot...