Word: boning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flaying of celebrities like Gifford and Jordan made it easy to miss the point. For years children have been sold as slaves, blinded or maimed for crying or rebelling or trying to return home, ill-fed, bone-weary, short-lived. They file the scissor blades, mix the gunpowder for the firecrackers, knot the carpets, stitch the soccer balls with needles longer than their fingers. Human-rights groups guess there may be 200 million children around the world, from China to South America, working full time--no play, no school, no chance. All of which raises the question, once the news...
...Rose Background), with its powerfully modeled head, "formed," as Rainer Maria Rilke wrote after he saw it at the 1907 Paris Salon, "as though by hammering from within." The figure gazes at you with that uniquely Cezannian conjuncture of wariness and authority, every molecule of its flesh and bone asserting its pictorial structure against the dissolution suggested by the lavish wet brushstrokes that represent the wallpaper pattern behind...
RECOVERING. PAUL TSONGAS, 55, former Massachusetts Senator and 1992 presidential candidate; from a bone-marrow transplant, his second, to treat cancer-therapy complications; in Boston. The donor was his twin sister Thaleia Schlesinger...
RETIRING. GRINDSTONE, 3, Thoroughbred; after winning the Kentucky Derby at the cost of a career-crippling bone chip in the knee; in Louisville...
...Check contains three remixes of the main track), redo the songs of their idols (the Brit pop group Oasis, often accused of ripping off the Beatles, offers up a stale cover of I Am the Walrus on the single for its song Wonderwall) or perform out-of-character material (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony sweetly sing one of its hard-core rap songs on its single Tha Crossroads). Natalie Merchant, whose enchanting album Tigerlily spawned three successful singles, says "songs should have a second life." She returned to the studio to rerecord her song Jealousy before releasing it as a single...