Word: used
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several councillors said they wanted to make the terms of the sale conditional on its future use as a a supermarket...
...basically doing is suggesting a buy-back if you never use it," Walsh said. Under such an arrangement, he said, "Both sides win. The neighborhood wins, the city wins, and Stop and Shop wins...
Environmentalists praised Japan's actions but noted that the reduction in drift-net use was much less sweeping than the ivory ban. Said New Zealand Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer: "Any drift netting in the South Pacific is unacceptable...
...surprising that Parker was hired to complete Poodle Springs, a Marlowe caper unfinished when the author died in 1959. Complete is an understatement. Only the first four chapters (scenes really) belong to the master; the remaining 37 are Parker's. Readers who use their ears as well as their eyes will notice rhythmic differences. Chandler's sentences are usually punchier than Parker's. R.C.: "It was a very handsome house except that it stank decorator." R.P.: "I found an office finally, as close to a dump as Poodle Springs gets, south of Ramon Drive, upstairs over a filling station...
Nowhere is its delight in the ironic life of overlaid signs made clearer than in the use of collage, which Picasso invented and Braque rapturously extended. The caning in Picasso's Still Life with Chair Caning, 1912, is mechanically printed oilcloth, and its presence in the tiny painting -- worked over with that fierce slanting clutter of painted images, newspaper, glass, cut lemon and so forth -- is a double play with signs, not the insertion of something real into a fiction...