Word: appeareance
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...with tigers,'' Jones sings over rumbling congas and drums, ''Tracing the lamp with my toes/ Playing with tigers 'til I find out/ Where it goes.'' At once innocent and world-weary, Jones' voice drops to a husky whisper or drawls syllables to wring nuance from every note. Painful memories appear without warning. On A Stranger's Car, Jones promises a young runaway that ''There is no one here to beat out your brains/ There's no one here who'll make you cry.'' Ultimately, though, human anguish gives way to understanding and compassion, and the demons that haunt Traffic from...
...like those Hispanic chicks who dye their hair blond? That's an attractive look. No wonder some Spanish guys are ready to rape any white woman who comes along''.) As for Ted Danson, he's still dealing with the fallout from a rare stab at stand-up comedy. Appearing at a Friars Club roast for his lover, Whoopi Goldberg, Danson wore blackface makeup, made crude jokes about their sex life and freely used a common derogatory word for black people. New York City Mayor David Dinkins was offended, and talk-show host Montel Williams resigned from the Friars Club...
...senior officials at the dinner knew exactly what Rabin meant. Modern weaponry is at the heart of the Jerusalem-Beijing relationship, and Eisenberg has been selling Israeli defense technology to the Chinese for more than a decade. Eisenberg is the real-life version of the international power brokers who appear in the pages of popular thrillers, and he is usually described with some of the same adjectives: shadowy, reclusive, discreet. Worth an estimated $1.3 billion, he is a legendary figure in Asia, a modern taipan. His holdings include all or part of hundreds of companies in 30 countries, and though...
...little guy too. Tiffany & Co., the retail jewelry giant, is in a similar quandary after a federal court in New York City ruled on Monday that Internet companies are not required to police trademark violations that appear on their websites. The case involved the online auctioneer eBay, which Tiffany had sued after counterfeit jewelry was sold on eBay's site. The judge did say that companies like Tiffany can do the policing themselves and order websites to remove online material that flouts trademarks. But even for big firms, patrolling an ocean as vast as the Internet for intellectual-property shenanigans...
...Bull rights? Here in the middle of bullfighting season, when each weekend brings the bloody ritual slaughter - for sport or for art, depending upon your point of view - of more toros bravos, those animals appear to have precious few rights...