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...only 6¾-in. high and represent dancers ready to perform in a nobleman's house. The piece was never meant to be seen by living eyes; like funeral objects found in Egyptian tombs, the sculpture was placed in the elegant grave of a dead princeling as a token of worldly pleasures to accompany him in the afterlife...
...consortium that provides a $40 million revolving fund to the government of South Africa. In announcing the withdrawal, the editors conceded that it may not be the business of banks "to make foreign policy"; but so great is the evil of apartheid, they added, that some kind of token protest against the bank's acquiescence in South Africa's racial policies was necessary...
...probability, their correspondence set some kind of record, for they wrote to each other every day when they were apart. Yet Vita steadfastly refused to take part in Harold's busy life, even turned down his plea to make a single token appearance at his side when he successfully campaigned for Parliament...
...introduced as legislation, the outcry was so shrill that the bill was overwhelmingly defeated, amid cries that the whole idea was "scandalous," "filthy" and "bestial." But in ten years, the mood in Parliament - and in the country - has changed. Last week the House of Commons passed the bill over token opposition, and it will soon go on the statute books...
...embarrassed at having to defend Americans. Wortham's counsel produced character affidavits from everyone from the mayor of North Little Rock to Congressman Wilbur Mills, told the court that "Wortham is not a person of such social danger as the prosecutor represented," asked for a token sentence of three months...