Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week, when it ruled that individuals may not be convicted of federal criminal tax violations if they sincerely believe they are exempt from income tax laws. The 6-to-2 decision set aside the one-year prison sentence and five years of probation imposed on American Airlines pilot John Cheek, who filed no returns for six years. Cheek's defense: he claimed that his salary was not taxable under the IRS code because he believed only gains or profits are income...
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Comedy Channel). While we watch campy old movies (Rocketship X-M; The Corpse Vanishes), three outer-space wisecrackers provide tongue-in-cheek patter from the front row. This goofy stunt, first cooked up for a Minneapolis UHF station, is funnier than it has any right...
...members of two of Harvard's a capella groups, we appreciated the tongue-in-cheek humor of Philip M. Rubin's attack on the a capella music scene in his article "It's Muzak to My Ears." It is true that a capella groups are prolific posterers, and try to keep a high profile on campus, but we would, of course, question the author's sweeping statements about our musicality. We enjoy the music that we make, and are happy to have the chance to perform...
...series shared the base image of a woman reproduced by a computer, but the details Butterick used to vary the image, rather than the image of the woman itself, became the subject of the works. Details such as the rhythmic boxes which produced the shading around the mouth and cheek of the second and fourth pieces of the series were noteworthy highlights of the wealth of innovations offered by the computer medium. The resulting series was compelling both in the artist's chosen techniques and in the unity of the whole...
...than usually open, or "out." Their bond is no secret to their families or neighbors -- in fact, they discovered after moving into a suburban-style home that four other lesbian couples live on the same block. Their friends know too: one year the couple sent out a tongue-in-cheek Christmas card depicting them entwined in a romantic cliffside embrace. Yet they are still wary enough, with Jill's tenure on the line, that they refused to have their real names included in this article...