Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...largest work in the show, River of the Moon, 1992, consists of a tangle of thick lead pipes connected to what seems to be a pumping station. These entrails snake up the museum ramp, apparently disappearing into the walls or the floor and re-emerging; they are connected to black boxes through whose glass tops a puddle of mercury can be seen welling up and vanishing as the pump switches on and off. It is obviously meant as a metaphor for the circulation of fluids inside the human body, with lunar input. But it is a ponderous affair and mechanically...
...find a way to plug most of the holes that invite fraud, doctors -- and patients -- are certain to devise new ways to cheat the system. Three years ago, consumers accounted for only 10% of all medical fraud cases, with savvy providers, doctors and other health-care professionals filing the snake's share of claims. Today consumers are behind one-third of all claims...
...They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over. The sow had it by the neck, and the shoat had the tail. 'You pigs git,' Augustus said, kicking the shoat. 'Head on down to the creek if you want to eat that snake.' It was the porch he begrudged them, not the snake...
Remember the temptation of Eve in Eden? Here's how it goes in one new version of Genesis. Eve: "Yeah, snake, I can eat of these trees, just not the tree of knowledge or the Almighty said I'd be knocked off." Snake: "Nah, sister, he's feeding you a line of bull. You won't die. The Almighty just knows that if you eat from the tree you'll be hipped to what's going down." Say what...
...lack of competition may be only temporary. If the industry succeeds in shedding its snake-oil image, more upscale entrepreneurs are likely to rush in and take advantage by starting new channels. TV retailing won't make department stores obsolete just yet, but it might make a dent in the mall business...