Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Orleans, to the beat of 63 Dixieland tunes belted out by the ten-piece Olympia Brass Band. Children gawked and grownups dropped their weekend chores to watch. One woman clown clad in green and white greeted a bemused bystander with a blue balloon and a smacking kiss on the cheek. Another clown in a striped T shirt and psychedelic wig paused from time to time to give lawnmowers, car windshields, even a motorcycle policeman's helmet a few flicks with his bright red feather duster. Along the way, the clowns stopped off at two hospitals, a mental institution...
...take models away from There is little doubt that Eileen and Jerry Ford will maintain their sovereignty in the model wars. But Casablancas al ways has a fallback. He is married to his first model, Jeanette Christjansen, a for mer Miss Denmark, who at 32 can still match cheek and thigh with some of bodydom's finest...
...Thus at a time when U.S. interests are being flouted in Iran and Afghanistan, and when even the European allies question America's right and ability to lead the West, Central America has emerged as a major test of U.S. credibility. Says Deputy Assistant Secretary of State James Cheek: "If we cannot be a force for moderate and peaceful change in our own backyard, we cannot do it anywhere. And if we are irrelevant to revolutions, in this world we are doomed." A country-by-country look at the volatile region...
Whatever political comment Used Cars aims to make (and there is a hilarious moment involving a presidential address), it gets lost in the car race that consumes the second half of the film. All of it is tongue-in-cheek, silly with a hint of satire but the slam-bang plot turns the movie into a predictable demolition derby...
...affairs, endorses the trend. "It's a very gentle custom," he says. When the women heard Thomas wistfully admit he had never been tucked in, they showed up at his office one afternoon with a blanket, a lullaby ("Rock-a-bye baby") and five daughterly pecks on the cheek. Maryland Student Affairs Staffer Patricia Orndorff recalls being tear-gassed and locked in her office during the more obstreperous 1960s. Of the latest fad, she says: "It's great that the students are doing nice things for a change...