Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very far. James Metts, a Republican county sheriff, made them an issue when he launched an independent bid for Governor last year. Metts managed to come up with a lilting musical ditty: "To start, he takes a beautiful girl, pays her 90 thou and goes for a whirl. Reporters ask, 'What about wife No. 1?' But David just wants to have fun." Metts eventually apologized, withdrew from the race and endorsed Beasley...
...barred. Some of eBay's competitors have escrow-type accounts and customized delivery services. Auction Universe has just begun offering an optional "Bid$afe" policy with money-back guarantees and insurance coverage of as much as $3,000. Of course, every auction involves risk of some sort. Just ask the crestfallen bidders who lost out on that Ulysses S. Grant pillowcase. Or the collector still looking for a matching kidney...
...none of Morrison's novels had been filmed, and that was fine with her. "I was always annoyed," says the author and Princeton professor, "when my students would ask, 'When is there going to be a movie?' I told them that a novel is not what happens before the movie. Why can't it just be a book?" Morrison knows the page and the screen are only distantly related, especially in the adaptation of a novel like Beloved--dense, elliptical, teeming with allusion and metaphor, leaping from now to then and back again, in pain. Turning a book into...
...ask her what the attraction of her life's work is. The scientist in her is drawn to "the place where the history of life actually can be found, not in fossils but in living creatures that represent life as it has been, perhaps, from the beginning of time." The privilege of her vocation is "like having a chance to dive into your own circulatory system and swim around and see how it all fits together...
...wrongly distinguished male topless dancing from female. It didn't work, with the high court deferring without comment to this appeals court ruling from last March: "We must recognize that the public reactions to the exhibition of the female breast and the male breast are highly different." Just ask Vanessa...