Word: shelf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modern readers for his limericks and nonsense verse. But contemporaries knew another side of the man. Lear devoted his early career to producing detailed paintings of birds, and his pictures, collected by Susan Hyman in Edward Lear's Birds (Morrow; 96 pages; $37.95), belong on the same shelf with Audubon's. The line drawings and sketches that accompany them shed new light on the man himself. Many artists have used birds to lampoon their fellow men. The owlish Lear used them to caricature himself...
...fits that make him prowl the city, striking down victims with a particularly vicious mountain climber's icepick. Yet here too is caricature--the screenplay never sufficiently explains the root of his troubles, nor why he feels compelled to shave his head, wear a wig, or sleep under a shelf in his walk-in-closet...
...THINKS Thoreau, he's sort of a fraud," the press agent says over the phone. Here's a spark of interest--after all, Henry David shows up about 36 inches into the Five Foot Shelf of Books. And now someone's gotten the goods on him, found some grinning skeleton of Piltdown Man in the closet of his rude cabin. Okay, so send the book...
...good, clean, hard battle to get on the ballot, persevering over odds that people originally thought were impossible. I have rekindled the enthusiasm of young people with the process that was dormant, if not dead. I raised terribly important issues that otherwise would simply have been left on the shelf. The issues will live after me. This country has to wake up and face its problems in a new and a different way. Maybe it will take a year, maybe it will take longer, but others will think back on what I said and what I did and be heartened...
Improvement of general Greek-Turkish relations will ultimately help solve the problem of Turkish occupation of Cyprus, Mitsotakis said. He added that the problem stems from Turkey's refusal to recognize the existence, under international law, of a continental shelf around Cyprus--preferring to consider Cyprus on an extension of the Turkish continental shelf...