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Despite a furious pace set by Northeastern, the Crimson maintained a four-to-nine point lead between the 10-minute mark and the final buzzer, when Northeastern high-scorer Dave Caligaris (28 points) sank a lay-up to close the margin to three...
Despite such adaptations, as the classical world sank, it took some arts with it. The great casualty was large-scale sculpture in the round. From Constantinople to Italy, there are plenty of low-relief carvings after the 4th century. But not for a thousand years would there be bronze heroes on horseback to match the Marcus Aurelius on the Roman capitol. From Constantine onward, the Christian emperors preferred flat hieratical art, especially mosaics, whose multiplicity of shapes suited a power based on ceremony. The "otherworldliness" of those gold-and purple-sheathed Byzantine nobles, glittering in mosaic on the walls...
...profits-that would have pushed a stock up sharply a few years ago now cause only a brief flurry of a point or two. On the other hand, bad news is no news at all. Hardly anyone paid attention in October when the Dow Jones transportation average sank to a point that indicated to followers of the venerable Dow Theory that a full-fledged "primary bear market" was under way. Everyone already knew that...
Banks canned a layup to keep the cagers within one, but then Williams intercepted a Bobby Allen pass and fed Lombardi, who picked up the foul. He sank both ends of the one-and-one to give the Rams a 68-65 lead with 16 seconds remaining...
...stock market reacted to all these uncertainties in predictable fashion: it sank. The Dow Jones industrial average, the market's most widely watched barometer, plunged dizzily to 800.85, its lowest level in two years. The drop is particularly unsettling because investors regard the 800 level as a psychological barrier; once it is breached, they fear an even steeper fall. By week's end the market had recovered slightly, to a closing Dow average of 809.94. Nonetheless, since New Year's Eve the Dow has plummeted 194.71 points, an astonishing slide. Clearly the nosediving stock market is trying...