Word: brushing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biggest draw by far is the Fancy Feastbooth, where trainer Scott Hart feeds a WhitePersian named S.H.3, a relative of the cat thateats out of a crystal bowl in televisioncommercials. S.H.3, paws the air, eats fromcrystal, curls up on a director's chair, eats froma spoon. Awed by this brush with celebrity, thecrowd is silent. Old ladies with Polaroids pushtheir way through to the front, determined to makea visual record of the encounter...
...that incident on Feb. 8, Ingraham allegedlya revolver on a lacrosse player and field aftertrying to brush past Dillon staff members into theathletic building...
...cover a story engineered by one, concerning a top-priority subject: presidential politics. When the Star, its cover splashed with scarlet, citron and purple, asserted that Gennifer Flowers enjoyed a 12-year affair with Democratic candidate Bill Clinton -- in an issue that also retailed movie star Harrison Ford's "brush with death" (resulting in four stitches) and a household "ghostbusting" by rocker Joseph McIntyre of New Kids on the Block -- "real" journalists scoffed. The interview with Flowers was tainted, they said, by the reported $130,000 to $175,000 that she was paid (amply recouped via an estimated...
DARLINGS, I wanted to be the first to brush back my long flowing tresses, throw open my dainty little mouth and shout--in an operatic tremor befitting a DIVA like myself--BRAVA on your latest FABULOUS double issue of Peninsula...
Optimists, in which the state traditionally abounds, brush off the gloomy predictions. They point to unique underlying strengths such as the nine- campus, Nobel-rich University of California, which some educators think may be the best public university in the world; the unsung incorruptibility of most of the state's civil servants; the magic copper light that descends on mile-wide beaches at sunset; even the savage majesty of streaming headlights on the freeways on a clear night. Finally, they single out what Mark Davis, an aide to Governor Pete Wilson, extols as "a new pioneer spirit" among the waves...