Word: souvenired
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...inevitable blowup, usually organized by dissident Jews. Then his personal bravery was an evangelistic asset. In three successive towns in Galatia, for example, Paul and Barnabas were expelled with violence (in one Paul was nearly stoned to death), but they returned and organized churches. In Ephesus, the makers of souvenir silver models of the temple of Artemis for the tourist trade organized a spectacular riot against Paul and his fellow Christians because of their bad-for-business denunciations of idolatry...
...painting with props pasted or fastened to the picture ("It begins with a painting and sort of moves out into the room" He gained notoriety by attaching a pillow to a patchwork quilt, splashing paint over them and calling the result The Bed But such beginning efforts had "a souvenir quality, Rauschenberg says, "which I am now trying to kill. Nostalgia tends to eliminate some of the directness. Immediacy is the only thing you can trust " Among the fragments of immediate experience with which Rauschenberg floods his latest work are stuffed birds, ladder and three radios blaring at once (behind...
...baron has been taking time-off from his three souvenir shops to run his Olympic candidates out to the ski slopes in his Studebaker. The top candidates for the three-man team are all named Kindle: Silvan Kindle, 23; his third cousin Hermann Kindle, 24; and Gebhard Kindle, 21, no kin. The Kindle Kinder train hard. Liechtenstein has no ski lifts; the husky young Olympians must hike up the steep Alpine slopes on foot. All of them work in factories, ski only on weekends. "That's the Olympic idea," says Baron von Falz-Fein. "Do sports for your pleasure...
Inheritance Tax. In Los Angeles, Mary L. Hoffman, 48, asked for a divorce from Husband No. 2 because he beat her with a jockey whip, a souvenir from Husband...
...pursuit, brandishing a rifle. On calmer days, a costume ape may stalk out to the highway to thumb a ride. Even WAPE's checks are decorated with the simian image-along with a brief message from the keepers: "We will welcome your saving this check as a souvenir instead of cashing...