Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vendor has an order for a couple thousand pounds of roast beef," says Carpenter, the meat and poultry buyer for Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS). "I'II pick out the ones I want...
...Styles range from garishly colored representational paintings to serene abstracts. The themes are the same ones that inspired a thousand Renaissance masterpieces: the Nativity, Madonna and Child, and gripping Bible stories. The most frequent subject is Christ's agony on the Cross, a visual testament to the Africans' own suffering. But Zairian Catholic sculptor Ndombasi Wuma, like many Protestants, refuses to depict the Crucifixion. Says he: "I believe in the risen Christ. Why should Christ be anguished...
...Thirty thousand feet above the Pacific, the businessman wakes from a peaceful sleep to find the flight attendant placing a glass of Dom Perignon on his tray. "How would you like your eggs, Mr. Kliman?" His eyes fall on the small and tasteful burner resting atop her cart in the aisle. A sigh of contentment. "Poached, please." Has he arrived in heaven? Or is this merely Singapore Airlines...
...young hopefuls. But everything else about this show is bigger, riskier and very late '80s. For one thing, its co-sponsor is a Japanese liquor firm. For another, it carries an all-time-high ticket price of $55. And the cost of its opening is $8 million, a thousand times that of The Straw Hat Revue...
Scorsese is hardly a highly verbal filmmaker. His gift is to pack the equivalent of a thousand words of dialogue into a single elegant image. Life Lessons is about a bearish artist (Nick Nolte) whose reputation is currently bullish in chic circles but is distinctly on the decline as far as his lover assistant (Rosanna Arquette) is concerned. Both actors are excellent, as is Richard Price's script, which is taken from a passage in Dostoyevsky's life. But it is from the observation of simple things -- a slo-mo close-up of a cigarette being discarded, a brush slathering...