Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the more priceless moments of The Day Room have only tangential relevance to the action at hand. One of the benefits of having all one's characters lunatics is that virtually any parenthetical comment may be expanded into a foolishly profound discourse. Richard Grusin, playing a sleazy motel desk clerk, launches into an elegy on stains and their makers, while Thomas Derrah portrays a straightjacketed mental patient and Middle American T.V. set simultaneously with equal conviction and vigor...
...displays of civic boosterism in the rivalry to win the right to play host to the Democrats in 1988, but other eager cities have been working hard to upstage it. A Democratic Convention can bring at least 30,000 people and more than $25 million to a city -- plus priceless prestige and publicity. Until late this month, when the winner will be selected, Atlanta, Kansas City, Houston, New Orleans, Washington and New York City will be polishing themselves to theme- park perfection...
...doll, it is found in almost every epoch and culture, reaching back to the little votive objects of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, as well as the creche miniatures of Europe in the Middle Ages. Even the cheapest five- and-dime figurine is kin to the priceless Japanese ceremonial dolls that museums covet and to the feminine miniatures some African peoples still present to adolescent girls when they reach sexual maturity...
...preserve's coastal plain is one-third the width of Prudhoe Bay's and that the caribou herd that migrates there to calve is 15 times as large as Prudhoe's. Says Mark Troutwein, a consultant to the House Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment: "The area is a priceless wildlife resource that cannot tolerate airstrips and pipelines without a serious loss of quality...
...election year, when members of Congress might want to be back in their district politicking, they were busy on-camera deep into August (television coverage now gives them priceless visibility back home), striking attitudes about South Africa and Supreme Court Justices and crafting the new tax bill. Over at the White House, feeding the 7 o'clock news is taken most seriously. The attitude is that if you don't divert the press with themes of your own, the press will be asking questions you don't want to talk about. So, in the weeks before Reagan began his real...