Word: velvets
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...bidders explains why. There is a lively market in the Orient for powdered elkhorn, a surefire aphrodisiac, and an 18-to 20-lb. rack of antlers will bring about $105 per lb.: "Of course, you got to cut the rack off when it's still in velvet, and some folks think that's cruel, but it don't do no real harm, and you still got your...
...thuggish way, though, the Czech authorities showed they were onto something when they bridled at Kundera's latest work. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is deeply and impressively subversive, in more ways than one. Kundera not only raps the iron knuckles of totalitarianism; he coolly unravels the velvet glove of liberalism...
Even before her meeting with Rosalynn, reported Washington Correspondent Johanna McGeary, Nancy showed she was learning the velvet ropes of living in the White House. Earlier in the week she had borrowed a presidential JetStar to pop up to Manhattan to shop and have her hair done at Monsieur Marc...
...condense a social essence, suggesting what one can only call a poetry of ownership. His marriage portrait of William and Elizabeth Hallett, 1785, usually known as The Morning Walk, is one of these: two peach-skinned 21-year-olds, dressed to the nines in their formal finery of velvet, taffeta, filmy silk and crisp ribbons, adored by the animal kingdom in the shape of a fluffy white dog (whose exuberant coat mimicks the finesse of his mistress's clothes), strolling in their idealized park. Its rhymes between nature and culture-particularly in the similarity between Gainsborough's handling...
...reach downtown Atlanta, nine miles away, in 17 minutes on a new branch of the Atlanta metro. Although designers spent $450,000 on contemporary art at the airport, most critics were unimpressed. Quipped Atlanta Journal Columnist Ron Hudspeth: "They could have gotten off much cheaper with a couple of velvet bullfighter scenes from K mart...