Word: brush
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moran said that at a time when first-year students are about to receive their house assignments, it is unfortunate that Mather, which is supportive of all students, has been tarred with a brush of racism...
...cause was aided by the timely deep-sixing of his mainstream rivals, Lamar Alexander and Richard Lugar, who graciously endorsed Dole last week as they departed the scene. Steve Forbes too was disappearing, only more slowly and clumsily. The Dole campaign's brush with Forbes still staggers Reed. "They very nearly got us," he marvels of the Forbes camp. "They came very close." As for Pat Buchanan, he was, if anything, growing more belligerent as he grew less threatening. "We're going to fight until hell freezes over," he vowed last week, "and then we're going to fight...
...recidivism? An oft-voiced critique of the new law, as New York Times writer Monte Williams expressed on Saturday, Feb. 24, is that it is "drawn so broadly that it includes people who do not appear to threaten public safety...effectively painting all sex offenders with the same brush." The result of this flattening of serious distinctions between sex crimes is that sex between a fifteen year-old and her nineteen year-old boyfriend, otherwise known as statutory rape, is held under similarly close scrutiny as the violent rape of a young girl--a ridiculous state of affairs...
...shrieks-with-chic Barneys boutique. His epiphany was outside the store, not inside. Instead of Bentley Turbos, Mercedes S-class sedans and the usual Porsches and Lamborghinis, so boring, there was a Lost Safari of Land Rovers, Ford Explorers, Grand Cherokees and GMC Suburbans, all tricked out with steel brush guards, roof racks, off-roading spare-wheel mounts, and black-leather car bras to ward off gravel and grasshoppers on the Paris-Dakar run. Cedergren flashed his perception to his clients: "Cars are now history. The future belongs to trucks...
...images of happy families, Toshi notes, Americans "offer up their unhappy childhoods like movie plots, or like gifts." All this is set against the backdrop of the Crown Prince's dating Brooke Shields, protesting farmers dumping foreign rice, and "laid-off Toyota workers burn[ing] AMERICA=AIDS into the brush on the southern slope of Mount Fuji." While cultures fight, their products flirt...