Word: blemishing
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...swinging Japanese are caught up in parapara. Toshi, black hair swooshing three inches off his blemish-free brow, has plenty of experience in parapara paradise as a bartendar at Isn't It? Watching his peers week after week dancing like automatons with a Tequila problem, Toshi has developed strong feelings. "I can't believe they find that dance fun?it makes me sick just looking...
...India, the human and material cost of the insurgency?nearly 400,000 troops and border police are on permanent patrol?is an unwanted burden and a blemish on its international image. Also at stake is India's drive for a permanent United Nations Security Council seat. "India is willing and ready," Vajpayee announced in a written message to India's people on New Year's Eve, "to seek a lasting solution to the Kashmir problem...
...Vatican's champions say it had no choice: "the church as such" is ecclesiastical shorthand for the church as bride of Christ, which partakes of divinity and must thus be without blemish. Carroll, however, finds the apology's language "evasive and...immoral." Anti-Judaism, he writes, has been at the very center of Catholic theology at least since the Gospel of John, and the church has allowed, encouraged and--in the case of the Inquisition--chartered the foulest of abuses. "We Remember" further contended that the Holocaust was the product not of Christianity but of a "neo-pagan" regime that...
...always on your record if you're 17 or above," he says. "You'll always be in our system. Your fingerprints and photograph are still on file. You're always going to have to explain that blemish--it is always on record. And if the FBI has to decide between two candidates, they might take the one that doesn't have that...
...sight by avoiding certain camera angles, but last week there was no hiding the giant boil on George W. Bush's face. His bulging Band-Aid drew a lot of attention, so we asked a few cosmetic experts for better ways of dealing with such a large blemish...