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...Wilde not only achieved the most glittering renown of his era but the most abject humiliation as well. He flew higher and fell farther than any of his contemporaries, and his life had become a legend well before his death in a shabby Paris hotel in 1900. He had wrought his fate in only 46 years, but they were, to put it mildly, eventful ones. "Nothing," as a character in one of his plays remarks, "succeeds like excess...
...Manhattan store boasts some 10,000 items, ranging from $10 wooden stairway spindles to the interior of an art-deco jewelry store for $135,000, complete with display cases and teller's cage. There are hundreds of marble fireplace mantels, pedestal sinks, lighting fixtures, wrought-iron gates and granite gargoyles. There are bigger chunks of history: a 5-ft.-tall, $3,500 brass-and-crystal chandelier found in a crate in Gimbel Bros.' basement, and a 9-ft.-high, 77-ft.-wide chestnut-paneled music room from a turn-of-the-century house in Southampton, N.Y. Cost: $30,000. Antique...
...disarmament through strength, many Republican strategists -- notably Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger -- warned that the headlong rush to cut missiles was not being guided by any strategic vision of how the U.S. and its allies could best defend their vital interests. Yet another surprise "breakthrough" that discarded the carefully wrought strategies of deterrence could have been disconcerting...
...intended to balance concerns about the health of smokers against the economic benefits derived from domestic commerce in tobacco products. Said Judge John Brown for the first U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Palmer vs. Liggett & Myers: "It is inconceivable that Congress intended to have that carefully wrought balance of national interests superseded by the views of a single state, perhaps of a single jury in a single state...
Dukakis himself acknowledges the changes wrought by three years of considering politics from an academic perspective: "My years at the Kennedy School taught me several things. I'm a better listener, I think longer about decisions, and I'm a better builder of coalitions, which has made me a much more effective governor and would make me a much more effective president...