Word: silk
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...buildings and parking lots. In addition, coal mined at the Grand Staircase would have to be hauled to the nearest port--in this case Los Angeles--in as many as 400 truckloads a day over highways that in some cases do not yet exist. Building such a modern-day Silk Road might cost up to $100 million...
...inevitably resulted in charges of impropriety similar to ones she launched against religious institutions. "Madalyn was sort of the Jimmy Swaggart of the movement," says Gaylor's daughter Annie Laurie Gaylor, who is editor of Freethought Today. "I'm not implying criminal activity, but they were always bragging about silk suits and Cadillacs. At the same time the roof was always leaking--and 'Please send money.'" Madalyn, critics claim, like many charismatic movement leaders, had utterly lost the ability to distinguish between herself and her cause. San Diego attorney Roy Withers investigated and repeatedly deposed the Murray-O'Hairs...
...European ones--of the 18th century. Though based on intensive study of the human body, his work is about as realistic as grand opera. Enter it, and you're inducted into a majestic yet unpredictable fantasy land. It is full of soaring and twisting space, transparency and delicious shot-silk color--a place dedicated to the imagination and filled with idealized personages from history, myth and fable. It is by turns sublime, witty and slightly preposterous in its self-delighting rhetoric...
Most of us, I know, see the current frenzy in a very different light. We hear that L.L. Bean, J. Crew and Victoria's Secret are all but drained of hiking boots, chamois shirts and silk tap pants; we read in the newspapers of waiting lists for $4,000 handbags and $75,000 automobiles. And from every TV set, newspaper and magazine the purveyors of the modern-day bazaar hawk every imaginable consumable, potable and disposable...
Representing Manhattan's ritzy Silk Stocking district, Maloney is a tenacious, resilient legislator. Realizing that more than $50 billion was owed to the Federal Government (about $20.5 billion in student loans), she sponsored the Debt Collection Improvement Law of 1996 and joined other Congresswomen to draft a "Women's Contract with America." She has also gone toe to toe with the N.R.A...