Word: balding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find the concept of true and genuine democracy in the history textbooks with which we grew up. (If we remember anything from those red, white and hefty tomes it should be the ubiquitous image of the bald eagle on the front cover. It may be the only one you'll ever see.) No, true and genuine democracy has little to do with checks, balances, bicameralism or even Election Day. Instead, such democracy is grounded in the equitable distribution of power and material resources across the entire socio-economic spectrum...
...berry, which tastes sweeter than a boysenberry. They'll also find ice caves where they can retreat from the sun--unless there's a July snowfall that day (it's happened). Canoeing on the Rangeley Lakes affords stunning views and a chance to glimpse the moose, ospreys and bald eagles that inhabit the shores...
Steven Spielberg has a cute bald spot--a silver-dollar-size patch of arid land on the otherwise fertile scalp that sheathes his even more fertile brain. When making movies he covers it with a studio-issue baseball cap, but certain formal occasions call for cagier camouflage. On Oscar night 1994, when Schindler's List won seven awards (including Best Picture and Best Director) and Jurassic Park took three others, a makeup artist sprayed Spielberg's bald spot with hair-colored paint. No problem, until half an hour into the post-Oscar party, by which time the star...
...being enlightening...[and the play] never gives us sufficient oppurtunity to do anything but distance ourselves from the characters. If this is the rationale behind Muchmore's labeling of the play as mediocre, then the same label must be applied to such plays as Waiting for Godot (Beckett), The Bald Soprano (Ionescu), The Maids (Genet) and The Homecoming (Pinter...
...letter exchanged between Sack and me that was subsequently published? Did they bother to make even the most minimal effort to ascertain whether Sack's assault on my integrity, which is defamatory, is correct? Did they bother to check any of Sack's unattributed quotations and bald assertions? Did they ask Sack to justify any of his charges or the manner in which he characterizes me? Or did they simply print his piece because it made "good copy?" Since I now fall into the category of "public figure," apparently, for some, any mud slung my way is fit for printing...