Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student named Brian at Washington University in St. Louis has stumbled across my home page (http://www.fas.harvard.edul/~gupton) and had decided to take issue, in hateful words, with my choice of the best songs and movies of all time--particularly my tongue-in-cheek selection of "Pretty Woman" as the greatest film ever. "I could see a 60-year-old former Walmart greeter making this choice, but a Harvard student...
...plenty of TV crews--beat a path to his door, in the town of Lexington, North Carolina (pop. 16,583). Once there, they heard the alarming tale--as Johnathan and his parents told it--of the first-grader at Southwest Elementary who planted a kiss on a classmate's cheek, partly because he liked her and partly, he said, because she asked him to. But a teacher saw him, the girl complained, and Johnathan was disciplined by being barred from his class for a day, causing him to miss coloring, playtime and an ice-cream party. Initially, school officials said...
...developing a modern adaptation of Gogol's Dead Souls to star Alec Baldwin; casting director Sara Radisson-Stein gives birth to a son who is blind, and she writes moving letters to him ("I'm sitting beside you as I write; the faintest light falls upon your marzipan cheek. You're the sweetest plum..."), while her TV-producer husband descends into crack addiction. The content of Wagner's satire of Hollywood is not particularly fresh, and the sexual grotesques that fill his book are the common currency of fiction these days. But the particulars of the author's images, tones...
...chats with the young mother, the doctor flicks a cotton swab into the mouth of her infant son, collecting a small sample of mucus from inside his cheek. In the back room of his office, he inserts the sample into a machine, which extracts DNA from the mucus cells and compares it with the genetic material on a dime-size chip. Minutes later, a computer printer begins to spit out a list of the infant's genes. Fortunately, all but a few of the genes are labeled "normal." It is those few that the doctor discusses as he explains...
...begun! And look!" she continued, with a broad gesture, "your colleagues here are watching not the clash of those who would lead us into the 21st century, but a--a baseball game! I have to know," she said helplessly, as a tear coursed down her smooth cheek, "was it always like this...