Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first American to join Russian cosmonauts on the space station Mir was greeted today with gifts of salt and bread, bear hugs and a kiss on the cheek. Astronaut Norman Thagard and his two Russian crewmates floated into the Mir 90 minutes after their capsule docked with the space station at 2:45 a.m. EST. The trio is slated to remain there for three months. NASA plans to send four more astronauts to the Mir beginning in June. TIME Moscow correspondent Terence Nelan says Russians at mission control in Kaliningrad (just outside the city) worked hard on a "flawless" docking...
Sommer's tongue-in-cheek composition signals the evolution from Chasing Shadows' "Creative Vision" into "Constructed Vision." Here, photographic image moves away from passive observation into active commentary of society. The final, contemporary photographs focus less on pure aesthetics than on communicating questions and truths...
...Vincent's orphanage in Newfoundland, and when the police bring him back, Brother Peter Lavin, who runs the place, is there waiting. Full of forgiveness, the clergyman brings Kevin into his study and sits the boy on his lap. "You're home now, child," he says, kissing Kevin's cheek, his neck, his bare chest. His passion spilling into parental devotion, he whispers, "Mama loves you." Finally Kevin dares to mutter, "My mother's dead and always will be. You're not my mother." Poor little fellow, he must be punished-flogged until his body is one deep bruise-then...
...many, that kind of sympathy with the enemy could seem the worst kind of two-facedness or moral relativism: not so much turning the other cheek as sheer turncoatism. And by trying to see both sides of every argument, Greene contrived to make enemies on both sides of every fence: Catholics and agnostics, McCarthyites and communists, all found his conviction wanting. A would-be Christian who admits to putting people before principles gets accused of sentimentality by skeptics and of hypocrisy by believers. Those issues found their focus in Greene's unshakable loyalty to his old boss in British intelligence...
...Egyptians deified cats expertly, but they could have taken a cue from the Hasty Pudding Club. The Pudding does it with style. Michelle Pfeiffer's coronation as 1995 "Woman of the Year" Monday exemplifies the clever, tongue-in-cheek adulation that greets one unfortunate woman every year...