Government funds allocated to Lia Manoliu stadium were delayed by a late budget, so sports officials set about looking at alternative ways of raising cash needed to replace the 80, 000 splintery seats with modern plastic benches, a stadium director said Wednesday.
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My father, when he visited, tactfully mentioned disintegrating plaster, stairs so steep they had to be climbed on hands and knees, nasty splintery bulging floors, a foundation apparently dug out with a spoon and a toilet constructed in the old Vermont manner directly opposite the main entrance, and a pervasive odor of decay.
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Instead of contemplating a millennium's worth of music or literature, I listened over and over to the splintery piano of Thelonious Monk, and savored Proust's delicate description of childhood in Combray _ turning, without really realizing it, to artists who slow time down instead of speeding it up, who hold each shard of the passing moment up to the light, out of the conviction that each is precious and beautiful.
