Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that for it to do any good, you have to spread it around." Vous can certainly guess who said that. Miss Piggy, but of course. And what she meant was "As a sow shows, so shall she reap." Thus, this week she will open an exhibit of some thoroughly priceless paintings at the Berry-Hill Galleries in New York City. Titled "Miss Piggy's Art Masterpieces: Treasures from the Kermitage Collection," the show will feature such dubious classics as Rodin's The Smooch, Botticelli's The Birth of You Know Who, and the piece of resistance...
...IDAF, by providing funds for lawyers, serves a "priceless" function. Gomes says. Because most South Africans tried for political crimes have little money, they have difficulty obtaining lawyers. Since there is no free public defence in South Africa. The IDAF, says Gomes, defers the necessary financial stimulus...
...IDAF, by providing funds for lawyers, serves a "priceless" function, Gomes says. Because most South Africans tried for political crimes have little money, they have difficulty obtaining lawyers, since there is no free public defense in South Africa. The IDAF, says Gomes, offers the necessary financial stimulus...
Cast up in America after the war, Brill founded his school on the shore of one of the Great Lakes. The institution boasted a dual curriculum: "the Priceless Legacy of Scripture and Commentaries," and social studies and French. As Brill puts it, "The waters of Shiloh springing from the head of Western Civilization." But the experiment flops. Hopelessly inept as a pedagogue and judge of children, Brill blames his school's failure on its students, whom he dismisses as "commoners, weeds, the children of plumbers." Given such contempt, he fails to recognize genius when it comes his way. Beulah...
...Cooley, an urbane 60-year-old, and his astute wife Ellen reach the Toulouse-Carcassonne canal, Kate has just surfaced, as dead as Ophelia, in a lock. In a classic, Christie-precise scenario, Cooley discovers that the murders almost certainly involve Kate's obsessive desire to own a priceless 35-carat ruby, a relic of the Crusades, which was stolen and has been missing for several years...