Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...museum of treasures, including 20 two-ton bricks from the Great Wall. Among the other 1,000 artifacts coming from the People's Republic: pearl-encrusted tapestries, ancient porcelain and a pair of life-size 3rd century B.C. terra cotta warriors. The Egyptians, too, plan to ship some splendid pieces, including the chariot of Pharaoh Ramses II. Japan's installation, with perhaps a touch of international swagger, will show off the country's state-of-the-art industrial robots. Australia is building a wind-power facility, and the $21 million U.S. pavilion, which will house a giant...
...outfield Williams hits fungoes. "The Splendid Splinter" is no longer a splinter. His stomach expands his windbreaker. "Ted the Kid"-his other nickname-is 63. Between fungoes he steals wistful glances at the kids in the batting cage doing the real hitting, kids who weren't even born when he retired. When he hits a ball over a frantically scrambling young outfielder's head, he gives a cackling laugh and shouts, "Bye! See yah later." An old man's revenge...
...system lends itself to manipulation. A bureau chief who disagrees with the Secretary can exploit it for procrastination. In 1975 the Assistant Secretary in charge of Africa managed to delay my dealing with Angola simply by using the splendid machinery so methodically to "clear" a memorandum I had requested that it took months to reach me. When it arrived it was diluted of all sharpness, and my own staff bounced it back again and again for greater precision-thereby serving the bureau chiefs purposes better than my own. Alternatively, the machinery may permit a strategically placed official's hobbyhorse...
...beneath the surface) and tree dozing (a crawler tractor with a tree bit on the front uproots each tree). Tree dozing worked so well on John Cargile's ranch at Arden, Texas, that whole stretches of his range are innocent of mesquite. The land gives an impression of splendid cleanliness. A creek flows not far from the ranch house-a sweet luxury in a dry country. Cargile and his wife Ta will take a guest there for a picnic on a moonlit evening, and there is something almost profligate in the sound of the water flowing...
...book than this to make such a case, much less transcribe it into a persuasive narrative. Readers new to Cheever are likely to find Oh What a Paradise It Seems fragmentary, preachy and thin. But the book is illuminated by its past; it assumes significance from the history of splendid fiction that Cheever has given it and everyone. -By Paul Gray