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...Search further and you'll find ceremonial brasses from Benin, Hawaiian feather cloaks and-most notoriously-a group of shrunken heads from the Americas (alongside trepanned skulls, and teeth that had been ritually filed to sharp points). There are tattooing and body-piercing displays, while the more squeamish can find diversion in mountains of magic charms, jewelry and ethnic sculpture. Those seeking a break from the saccharine prettiness of Oxford's colleges-or the steep prices of its centuries-old pubs-will find it here. Especially on a rainy day, and with a healthy sense of wonder...
...Search further and you'll find ceremonial brasses from Benin, Hawaiian feather cloaks and-most notoriously-a group of shrunken heads from the Americas (alongside trepanned skulls, and teeth that had been ritually filed to sharp points). There are tattooing and body-piercing displays, while the more squeamish can find diversion in mountains of magic charms, jewelry and ethnic sculpture...
...Plast refused all financial aid offered by local and regional governments, says Lenoir. It has also not exploited the reduced labor charges on new employee hires arising from France's reduced 35-hour workweek - a measure Lenoir calls "a nightmare." "Rather than offering assistance and incentives that are eventually shrunken down or simply taken away, the state should get out of business's way," scolds Lenoir, a proud economic liberal who thinks France's conservative government has the right reformist idea - but may lack the political courage to impose it fully. Lenoir's lament is common among French small-business...
Album art and liner notes have evolved a lot. The CD booklet is really the shrunken offspring of the vinyl LP sleeve, which was big enough to be almost a poster included with your album. It didn’t lend itself as well to belabored liner note essays or tributes—sorry Moby—but it gave artists a sumptuous amount of space to flaunt their chosen image or visual artistic vision...
...Once a film has shrunken, you can send it out to a lab, and they can print the film frame by frame to resurrect it,” Buck said...