Word: veined
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Another ad in this vein epitomizes the bizarre uses of literature as a commodity. It advertises Glenlivet, a brand of whisky. The ad portrays a tiny man climbing up on a bookshelf trying to reach a bottle of Glenlivet which has been lined up with leather-bound books and which, with its elegant, dark green bottle and carefully calligraphied label, fits right in. The books on the shelf have strange titles like Size Dification in Humans and The Case of the Shrinking...
...media demanded that Sen. Paul Simon explain how his fanciful public works-balanced budget plan would work. In the same vein, the media should grill Jackson on how he would finance his ambitious spending proposals, which include hugh increases in everything from education to social security to farm subsidies...
...swoop school that, if expressed orthographically, would look like ! cents* ! and to which the audience reaction is generally zzzzzzz, and some younger Soviet composers have flirted with newer techniques, such as minimalism. But most of the music heard last week mines the same tractor-factory-and-singing-peasant vein that the Soviets have been exploring for the past 40 years...
...Treasury Secretary James Baker praised Congress for being willing to compromise on sweeping issues such as what to do in response to unfair foreign trade practices. But Baker complained pointedly about the lack of "willingness to jettison amendments that sometimes are supported by only one member." In the same vein, Representative Robert Kastenmeier, a Wisconsin Democrat, castigated his colleagues: "A trade bill should be used to set trade policy, not provide some kind of discount Casbah for special interests...
Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams was the surprise winner of the 1986 American Book Award for nonfiction. This collection of short pieces about the American Southwest, Alaska, endangered wildlife and forgotten cultures is in the same vein. Much of the ground covered is by now well trodden, though Lopez has a light step. He glides over pre-Columbian history, kicking up bits of ornithology, geology and marine biology. His best entry is about beached whales on the Oregon coast and the peculiar behavior these leviathans caused in the local population. The author is a clear and patient observer whose literary...