Word: barbe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...title story, recalls her childhood living with her mother and the buried memories of aunts and uncles who died in Hitler's death camps. Overheard scraps of dinner-table conversation are not enough to reconstruct the past, so Anna uses her imagination. She starts by picturing a single barb on a wire, "its taper, its point, its torque, its dull gleam...
...shark's back--no easy task, considering that its skin is as thick as a watermelon rind and as tough as leather. The shark doesn't even flinch. "That's nothing," Meyer reassures me, "compared with the wounds they inflict on each other during mating." I slip a barb-tipped wire with a white plastic tag into the incision and tug hard to anchor it in place...
Lest anyone start to coo over this little gem of the movie, Holofcener knows enough to drop a barb or two: driving home from the country house with Amelia and Laura, with the touching soundtrack running full speed, Frank loudly asks whether they're going to have to listen to "this vagina music" the whole ride...
...last year for a Senate bill that would transform federal welfare spending into a system of smaller, block grants to the states which would eliminate the safety net of protections for children ? Edelman responded with an "Open Letter to the President" in the Washington Post, complete with the barb: "This is a defining moral litmus test for your presidency." Clinton eventually withdrew his support for the bill. Meanwhile, the percentage of children living in "extreme poverty" (with a family income level less than half the official poverty level) has doubled to 10 percent since 1975. And the public seems...
...then Sittler set up Barb Gordon 2:37 into the extra session for the game-winner...