Word: buttes
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...something they're a little more comfortable working with - part of a trend. If it means defense spending, more spy satellites, less spy satellites, fine. If it means the "CNN effect," or decreased consumer confidence, fine - they can always sell. If it means America's going to kick butt and we can all proudly go back to our consumerist lives and our primed-for-a-V-shape business cycle by summer, even better. They'll rally till all the terrorists are scattered and the world is safe again...
...until this morning. Caroline's our family's word watchdog. If the parents use "stupid" in any context, she'll bring us up short: "Daddy, we don't say 'stupid.'" I have to keep explaining to her that the "but" I just used in conversation is not the "butt" she's not supposed to use. Anyway, one of her least favorite words is "disaster." She knows its meaning because at some point in each of the Madeline books Miss Clavell, the all-seeing and all-knowing nun, wakes in the night sensing something is not right and then, fearing...
...pilots are supposed to be the gritty guys on a commercial plane. Flight attendants, they're the chatty cart pushers, the cheerful aisle monitors, the butt of a dozen Saturday Night Live sketches staler than the pretzels on a transcontinental trip. It's the difference between The Right Stuff and Coffee, Tea or Me? But tragedy has a way of smashing cliches, and the folks who used to be called stewardesses and stewards have a new mission. Where once they quieted raucous infants, now they must assure passengers--those relative few who are still flying--of the safety...
...doll. Get over it. Anyone who wants to base how they look on a piece of plastic is delusional. I grew up playing with My Little Ponies. But I never thought I wanted to grow up with four legs, a tail, and a star on my butt...
...damage was done. Despite all the proclamations of innocence and the dismissal of the criminal case, where Jackson once drew adulation and love from the world, there was now revulsion. Jackson was no longer the King, he was the butt of countless jokes. While his fame still persisted around the world, he was a pariah in the land of his birth. In an effort to combat this, Jackson spent an unprecedented sum of money to force open the arms of the world to receive him again. 1995 saw the biggest publicity campaign ever mounted, Jackson’s deep-seated...