Word: sank
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lessons of Velazquez's Las Meninas, which Sargent had copied in the Prado, sank very deep into his style and would produce curious effects tinged with melancholy, like the brilliant early portrait of the daughters of Edward Darley Boit--four slightly alienated-looking moppets, their white pinafores gleaming in a cavern of bourgeois shadow...
...Cousteau acquired a retired 66-ft. minesweeper named Calypso and turned it into the floating oceanographic laboratory on which he would sail the seven seas for more than four decades. That legendary vessel sank after a freak accident in Singapore harbor in 1996; a state-of-the-art 217-ft. replacement, Calypso II, is on the drawing board awaiting funding. But through the Cousteau Society, which he founded in 1973 and which continues to operate under the direction of his widow Francine, Captain Planet's legacy lives on in the form of films, books and a thousand azure images etched...
...prove too much for the lowbrow Johnnies to handle? This Sweet 16 tilt promises to be a classic, with as many as three potential lottery picks in the starting lineups. So for one night, forget about your bracket (in all likelihood already lost, along with the five bucks you sank on it) and watch the game for its own sake...
...prove too much for the lowbrow Johnnies to handle? This Sweet 16 tilt promises to be a classic, with as many as three potential lottery picks in the starting lineups. So for one night, forget about your bracket (in all likelihood already lost, along with the five bucks you sank on it) and watch the game for its own sake...
...what's wrong with real estate? Plenty. Anyone who sunk money into publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trusts, or REITs, has been scorched badly. Last year the average REIT stock sank 17% while the Standard & Poor's 500 soared 27%, and REITs' dismal showing has extended into early 1999. Never have REITs lagged the market by such a wide margin. They're more out of favor than a home with peeling paint and shag carpets...