Word: boning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story of a Huck Finn-esque mall rat in upstate New York. Unfortunately, it was a lot easier to be an American archetype when Huck and Jim floated down the Mississippi, a ready-made metaphor. It's a much more difficult, and much less interesting, trick for Bone, the 14 year old narrator of this book, who's stuck not with a river but a mere shopping mall, a place whereTIME book critic John Skowsays "you can sort of float, but not too far, just around in the same old circle, which gets kind of boring even if you manage...
...idea of Ryan as the comedian who copyrighted Cute is too limiting; she has dark tones in her palette as well. She's done terrific work as down-and-outers in Flesh and Bone and When a Man Loves a Woman and as the body-snatched bride in Prelude to a Kiss. The lovely wrapping is still there-but beneath it, the hint of fervid desperation, of a deep wound she both hides and nurses...
...Rouen this February, Jacques Chirac slumped into the back seat of his Citroen and opened a Heineken. Chirac is the conservative mayor of Paris and a former Prime Minister of France; he was running for the French presidency and had just delivered a 90-minute speech. He was bone tired. Nevertheless, the long day of handshaking and backslapping buoyed his spirits. "I have always campaigned close to the people," he said. "I am a man of contact." Chirac had an added reason for satisfaction: on that night, for the first time since he officially entered the race in November...
Boris Yeltsin seemed almost buoyant. He was not quite the man who hopped on a tank to denounce the would-be coupmakers of August 1991, but, reinvigorated by a Black Sea vacation, he still delivered a bone-crushing handshake that belied-as perhaps it was meant to-the persistent rumors of his declining health and drinking problems...
Around 2 p.m., as the professor searched for books on children's psychology, one of the movable shelves in the sociology section of the P3 level closed on his left arm, breaking the ulnar bone in his left wrist...