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When Satirist Ambrose Bierce proposed that wry definition of the charnel trade at the turn of the century, it was still possible to be buried for under $25. Today that sum would barely buy a spray of flowers. Last July, in response to charges of price gouging, the Federal Trade Commission ordered undertakers to provide price lists for their services. Now the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Denver is offering bargain burials...
...camera sees gray clouds, a churning gray sea, the spray-lashed stones of a harbor breakwater, and at the breakwater's end, facing seaward, the cloaked and motionless figure of a woman. A storm is blowing up. There is danger. A passerby, a tall, mustached young man, makes his way out along the breakwater to warn the solitary watcher. Over the rising wind he calls out to her that she is not safe. Now the mysterious figure turns, plucks aside the rough cloth of her hood and stares at the man, or through him, for a few moments. Then...
...Steep Hill Beach in Ipswich, Mass., for the eighth annual sand castle competition were armed with buckets and shovels-the basic tools for molding an uncooperative medium into an image of their fantasies. Among the sculptures were a baby elephant, a dragon and a splendid 14-ft lobster, spray-painted red and accompanied by "melted butter." Six Cambridge artists fashioned the crustacean, and called it Lobster Plate Special $5.95. The purists stuck to castles. Boston Designer Jeff Nathan marshaled 30 helpers to re-create the Dalai Lama's Tibetan palace, while Landscape Architect John Shields of Newton Center, Mass...
...that insults have disappeared entirely from modern discourse, but they have been reduced to the most elementary forms of abuse, and to the least poetic occasions. Once in a while one feels the sweet spray of curses in a traffic jam or at a ball game, for example, and is momentarily uplifted, but it is mere rudeness, and rudimentary. Fortunately, we still have the old movies to turn...
...nothing more than a 60-ft.-wide plastic-lined hole in the ground filled with ice. To make the ice, Taylor last winter used a snowmaking machine similar to those found at ski resorts. Instead of making actual snow, however, he adjusted the machine's nozzle to spray out a substance that was roughly the consistency of wet sherbet, which was squirted into the hole. The water part of the slush drained to the bottom, leaving ice granules above. A system of pipes and pumps drew off the ice water from the bottom of the pond...