Word: bum
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...genuine post-communist failure? Nobody has an answer, because Ostravak has been meticulous in keeping his identity secret. "People have a chance to rev up their imagination at a full speed," Ostravak explained in an e-mail. "Wandering through my neighborhood they look around whether it's that drunk bum leaning on the corner, or that young girl pushing a baby carriage...
...closing his business because it was hard to compete in a new age of digital photography. Since Harvard needed to renovate the basement of his store this October, Ferranti moved out on that date.“I don’t want Harvard Real Estate to get a bum rap for this,” he said at the time.Zinnia Jewelry, Toscanini’s Ice Cream, and Gnomon Copy will close on Jan. 1 to make way for the renovations. But Power says that store owners knew to expect this.“The city was brought into...
Like running backs and child actors, rappers usually do their best work in the first year or two of their careers. The inevitable decline is brought on not by bum knees or embarrassing arrests--in rap there's no such thing--but by something far more mundane: words. Jay-Z's aptly titled classic What More Can I Say is more than 800 words long, and when it's over, you know everything you could possibly need to know about him. (By contrast, James Blunt's pop ballad You're Beautiful has fewer than 200 words, half of which...
...posh accent. The secret to nude scenes, which she says she hates, is establishing "a relationship with the director where you can say, 'Look, I'd really rather they didn't see my [British slang for private part],' or 'I've got a nasty mosquito bite on my left bum cheek. Can we not shoot that low please...
Like running backs and child actors, rappers usually do their best work in the first year or two of their careers. The inevitable decline isn't brought on by bum knees or embarrassing arrests - in rap there's no such thing - but by something far more mundane: words. Jay-Z's aptly titled classic "What More Can I Say" is more than 800 words long, and when it's over you know everything you could possibly need to know about him. (By contrast, James Blunt's pop ballad "You're Beautiful" has less than 200 words, half of which...