Word: cheek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sudanese-born supermodel Alek Wek stands poised and insouciant as the talk-show host, admiring her classic African features, cradles Wek's cheek and says, "What a difference it would have made to my childhood if I had seen someone who looks like you on television." The host is Oprah Winfrey, and she has been making that difference for millions of viewers, young and old, black and white, for nearly a dozen years...
...normal amount: two swoops on the hand, pat each cheek...
...Antelope Valley's skinhead fringe Finnegan sees a new kind of despairing descent of the white middle class intersecting on the way down with upwardly mobile blacks moving into the valley. In the black community of New Haven, bitterly set cheek-by-jowl with the neverland of Yale, Finnegan allows himself a generalization about "structural unemployment--the cruelest edge of the American economy's deindustrialization and increasing reliance on untrained, insecure labor, and a close cousin to the pervasive undereducation in public schools in poor and working-class neighborhoods...
...There are more serious issues for people toget alarmed about than a silly awards show. Anyinitial project is going to have flaws, but theycan work it out next year. The show is supposed tobe entertaining," said Tonika D. Cheek '99,choreographer for the Class of '99 Steppers...
...fellow Italian Americans at Our Lady of Pompeii. In an informal sampling at a table of six before his arrival, the wildly popular second-term Republican mayor was elected President of the U.S. One of the diners, Antoinette Vomero, told of the time Giuliani kissed her on the cheek...