But I'm glad I walked down that way because I got a look at another extremely lovely building which I had not noticed before; right across Madison Park from Theresa's office, is the Appellate Division of the Superior Court, which is housed in one of the most striking neoclassical buildings I can remember having seen. (Madison and 25th.)
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, not Superior Court, and if you like the outside, you should see the courtroom. Warm colored marble and a lot of Art Nouveau glass -- it's like being inside a Tiffany lampshade. The one time I've had the chance to argue there, I had a heck of a time not being distracted by how pretty the room was.
Hmmm, you're probably right -- at least I've been googling and can't find anything that raises the issue of toxicity with relation to terra cotta ornamentation. I was thinking specifically of architectural-grade terra-cotta ornaments, but my information came from an architect of my acquaintance idly pontificating about the facade of a Louis Sullivan building on Bleeker Street ("They can't do that any more -- the stuff they have to add to the clay is too toxic to work with"), rather than from any more rigorous source. Appears he was either wrong, or at least it's not hazardous enough for anyone to have posted anything about it on that interweb thingie.
This is off the top of my head, but don't use it as a garden ornament surrounded by plants that you mean to eat. I've been told that one of the reasons that terra-cotta ornamentation stopped being widely used is that the materials used were very toxic (I can't remember what specifically -- I remember it being something that sounded archetypically poisonous: strychnine, cyanide, lead...). I'll google around, and see if I can find anything confirmatory.
And if you work in the Flatiron Building as an SF editor, you have precisely the life I wanted as a teenager.
But, but... 'duck tape' is correct! 'Duct tape' is itself a hypercorrection -- probably more standard by now, but that doesn't make the original form wrong.
Gas, bullets, starvation, beating to death--different methods, same result: death. Do you really think this is happening now in Abu Ghraib?
I don't mean to say that the US is Nazi Germany, of course it isn't, but the above quoted sentence is an odd one. Don't you remember the picture of a prisoner beaten to death at Abu Ghraib? It came out at the same time as the rest of the Abu Ghraib pictures. There have been reports of more fatal beatings, but that one was actually photographed.
One more vote for liking it the way it is -- the more text on the screen at once the better. And I agree with whoever said that while sansserif fonts are less legible on paper, they aren't necessarily so on screen -- I work for a firm that puts out legal documents in Arial, a fact that fills me with rage and shame every time I have to sign one of them. Reading sansserif fonts on screen doesn't bother me at all, on the other hand.
The soldier photos remind me of the last one: having fun, with no belief of any wrongdoing at all.
I agree with you and Teresa here -- these look like people who were doing what they were told and are completely sure that it's okay. They weren't even a little afraid of getting busted -- more like "Hey Mom! Check out the goofy shit I get ordered to do for my country!" I'm reading facial expressions here, so I could be absolutely wrong, but that's what it looks like.
I am so humiliated and ashamed that our army is doing this -- I have a cousin in Baghdad now, and people are going to be trying even harder to kill him because we are doing these horrible things. I don't know what to do to make it stop, except to give every dime I can scrape together to left-wing political causes, and that feels completely ineffective.
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