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...finished; he died in 1974.) This unpretentious exactness of taste was much in keeping with Mellon's general style of philanthropy: the ambition being, a phrase often heard by the curators and museum directors who have dealt with him, to do it right, and not skimp, but within budget. Thanks to the design, most of the center's collection was simultaneously available to view after it opened...
...annual blow by also increasing its financial aid awards so students on the bottom of the income scale will be able to cope with the increase. Those in upper income levels will probably just dip a little further into their bank accounts for fair Harvard without having to skimp much on spending elsewhere...
...compared with the late Diane Arbus. Actually, with Mark, the comparison is not very useful. The harsh solipsism of Arbus' shots, their frontal, specimen-like character, the sense that one is conspiratorially sharing a taste for alienation - none of that emerges from "Ward 81." Mark does not skimp on desperation. There are grotesqueries, like the image of a male patient beginning a hand stand - a knot of barely decipherable limbs, a weird sculpture on the glittering linoleum. But the general character of the photographs is to convey sympathy with these trapped lives. Nowhere is it manifested more poignantly than...
Many miners seem determined not to skimp on Christmas. Karen Perrine, 23, is one of about 50 women who work in the mines in Greene County, Pa. Since her husband Linn lost his job as a truck driver several months ago, she has been the family breadwinner, and now she is out of work. It took considerable agonizing, she admits, before she and Linn decided to spend $35 for a toy truck coveted by their son Craig. "If you've ever seen a little boy's eyes light up like they did when...
...have such minimal, dismal bathrooms? Mainly, Kira contends, because we "have allowed our taboos and guilts to interfere with the fullest development and realization of our physical and mental well-being." Builders, eager to skimp on space, seldom conceive of the bathroom as an integrated system like the modern kitchen...