Word: brush
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Ferraro even handled a brush with Southern chauvinism with an aplomb worthy of Scarlett O'Hara. As the candidates dryly discussed farm issues near a soybean field north of Jackson, the state's venerable agriculture commissioner, Jim Buck Ross, asked Ferraro if she had ever eaten catfish. "No," she replied. "Then you haven't lived, young lady," he said. The talk turned to blueberries, and the 66-year-old commissioner inquired, "Can you bake a blueberry muffin?" Ferraro smiled tightly. "Sure can." Slight pause. "Can you?" Another pause. "Down here," drawled Ross...
Three stories brush against the private vagaries of love. In Sins of the Third Age, a couple eagerly plan their retirement to a farm in Italy. Then the husband announces, "I've met somebody." The wife is stunned but ultimately agrees to live out their remaining years together, just as they had always expected. She finds the infidelity hard to bear, but not as shattering as her husband's lethargic confession that he has renounced his lover. In Rags and Bones, a woman buys an old tin chest at a junk shop and discovers within it a cache...
...from the popcorn stand or the VCR or the Late Show. So did I. But I was wrong. This place is like school, only with trees. The first thing, I come in and they hand me a bunch of old books about dead movie stars. "You got to brush up on your nostalgia," they say. "What nostalgia?" I say. "I'm twelve years...
...further deregulation are moving quickly to the attack. Among them is Rhode Island Democrat Fernand St Germain, chairman of the House Banking Committee, who last week introduced a bill that would force commercial banks to sell their discount stock brokerage subsidiaries. Said St Germain of Continental's brush with failure...
...beyond the Saturday-matinee refreshment stand. Lucas seems happy to produce pictures that affect the heart rate but not the heart; and Spielberg, when working with Lucas, concentrates his nonpareil directorial gifts on energizing each frame, keeping his boss and the customer satisfied. But perhaps the young moguls can brush aside such criticism. They know what sort of edifice they want to build. You don't fault a theme park for not being a cathedral...