Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...following is a list of a few of the many prestigious fellowships that you stand no chance of winning and which I've thrown in here just to make you drool...
...implacable and bloodthirsty conservatism of Aztec art that forces itself on you first, even in the Met's galleries, so far from the real context of the sacrificial pyramids and the thousands of other effigies that make up its body. Here was an absolutely ordered society whose chief religious rite was human sacrifice -- penitential rituals, on an appalling scale, whose aim was nothing less than to keep reality in motion. The Mesoamericans believed that the world could stop at any moment, that the very cosmos was always on the brink of dissolution, its cycles maintained only by sacrifice...
...counting on other U.N. resolutions to help cement the coalition and build momentum against Iraq and is likely with its allies to propose several of them: to condemn Iraq's looting and destruction of Kuwait; to demand that Iraq not only withdraw but also pay reparations; and to make countries that help Iraq evade the economic embargo subject to sanctions themselves...
...Ivana Trump -- prenuptial agreements are increasingly in vogue among the middle and upwardly mobile classes. Such contracts are recognized in all 50 states, and matrimonial lawyers report that they are preparing two to five times as many as they did just five years ago, particularly among couples who make $50,000 and up. Many of the agreements not only spell out a division of financial assets if a marriage fails or a spouse dies, but also enumerate "life-style clauses," sometimes bizarre in their obsessive fine-tuning, that provide a blueprint for a marriage before it has begun...
...business alone does not a marriage agreement make. The lingering sour taste of a failed previous marriage prompts many couples to try to anticipate all the obstacles ahead on the next try. Couples in interfaith marriages often predetermine the religious upbringing of their prospective children. Two- income couples spell out the conditions under which they will relocate for a spouse's career. For every sublime consideration, there is a matching ridiculousness. One New York City couple were so determined to divide expenses equally that their contract stipulated that they would split the $3 toll when crossing the George Washington Bridge...