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...women all above. But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends'. There's Hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit, Burning, scalding, stench, consumption, fie, fie, fie! Pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination...
...ability to withstand nuclear blackmail." Estimated cost of Rocky's program: $1.5 billion. On a do-it-yourseli basis, a homeowner with a basement might build his shelter for about $50 a person; he would pay at least twice as much if a contractor did the job. To sweeten the plan, shelters would be exempt from local real estate taxes and construction costs could be deducted from state income tax. "Put the overall program into effect as soon as possible," urged the study committee. "We may have less time than we think." "The legislature wouldn't pass...
Prettified to the point of sentimentality, four Austrian Baroque sculptures depicting three saints and the Virgin, recall the tendency of that period and that country to sweeten religion. Yet the artist gave these less-than-profound figures and their billowing garb linear fluidity and much plastic interest. Characterized by an adept handling of color, especially pale reds and blue-greens, the Dutch painting portrays Christ on the way to Calvary with expressive, distorted figures...
...Hollywood hack. The book pretended, with some authority, to be the hard, straight stuff-novelist on the rocks. But Producer Jerry (The Best of Everything) Wald decided that the stuff was too strong for the customers he was after, and he attempted to water the old Fitzgerald down and sweeten it up. The result is one of those long, pale, fruity concoctions that the ladies are supposed to like. In this case, the taste is more than usually questionable. The industry that treated Fitzgerald so badly while he was alive treats him even worse now he is dead...
Earlier Retirement. While only a handful called for a general wage increase (average demand: 12½? or 15? an hour), many a worker wanted to wipe out wage inequities and sweeten fringe benefits...