Word: complementation
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...time being. "We ourselves propose the suppression of gambling dens," proclaimed the Binh Xuyen's General Le Van Vien to an astonished populace. "If we did run gambling in the past, it was only because we wanted to give the newly born state of Viet Nam an indispensable complement of money in taxes for its budget . . . Now we conceive the urgent necessity of a complete disinfection of the regime from all defects . . . to defeat Communist propaganda." At week's end, Binh Xuyen's spectacular gambling casino, Le Grand Monde, which in the old days and under earlier...
...imagination, during which the visitor takes a ride in an airborne pirate galleon, pops through the rabbit hole into Alice's Wonderland, hops on a mining cart for a trip to the diamond mines of the Seven Dwarfs; 2) Adventureland-an outdoor museum of natural wonders, designed to complement the True-Life Adventure Films, which will offer a Tahitian village populated by real live Tahitians (peddling papaya juice), and a trip down a tropical river past nattering monkeys, gnashing crocs and yawping plastic hippos; 3) Frontierland -"a glimpse into America's historical past" that will give its young...
...focused upon the very axis of his work, the climax and culmination, both literally and figuratively, of his polyphonic genius, The Art of the Fugue. The first concert, as if in preparation, had featured The Musical Offering, whose ten canons and gigantic six voice fugue might be considered a complement to Bach's abstract on polyphony...
...understandable, but it is by no means justifiable. In a free society, when opinions become unpopular and dangerous it is most important that they be expressed. To yield to the "climate of fear," to become a scared liberal, is to strengthen the very forces which one opposes. Courage must complement conviction, for otherwise each man will become a rubber stamp content to spent the rest of his life echoing popular beliefs, never daring to dissent, never having courage enough to say what he thinks, and never living as an individual, but only as part of the crowd . . . J. C. Peter...
...sketch of a thief in the toils of a serpent was included in a collection of old masters' drawings at the Durlacher Gallery. It shows the British mystic at his most frightening. Blake learned Italian in old age simply to read Dante, illustrated The Divine Comedy both to complement and criticize Dante's philosophy. For Blake, hell was on earth, not in the afterworld, but still he found it real enough. In Blake's drawing of Brunelleschi, the attacking serpent is not so much an infernal punishment for Brunelleschi's thieveries as a symbol...