Word: cheekes
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Despite the panic, the case against cellular phones is nowhere near as strong as the ones mounted against electric power lines, electric blankets or even hand-held police radars. Dozens of highway patrolmen have come forward to complain of tumors of the eye, the cheek or the testicles (from jamming radar guns between their legs). And there is a growing body of evidence showing that living near power lines can quadruple the risk of contracting childhood leukemia...
...negative opinions--Hillary will soon be defining key issues, forging a new role for women and making bold fashion statements. Stapled in the magazine's first issue is a mock-edition that documents Hillary Rodham-Clinton's presidential victory over Republican candidate Rush Limbaugh. It's written tongue-in-cheek, but it betrays a faint glimmer of hope...
...breakthrough" or "an old breakdown." And in the soft, scary Monopoly, about a departed lover, Colvin flays herself: "I'd rather do anything/ Than write this song for you." She warns herself not to soften the blow with irony: "Retreating behind these lines/ The same old tongue in cheek/ Regretting that both are mine." She swells into Faustian rage ("Imagine the nerve of God/ Letting me let you in") before sinking with the admission that "I would be anywhere/ Than here without you." This is bitter poetry: passion recollected in futility...
Much has changed over the years. Tharp is 51 and losing some of her plasticity, if none of her cheek. Baryshnikov is 44. Because of recurrent knee problems, his famous jump has been curtailed and he cannot lift Tharp, but his technique is as pure and liquid as ever. The evening, with mostly new works, tries to cope with the physical realities that confront them both and is only partly successful...
...mood of Little Shop hovers somewhere between tongue-in-cheek and high camp. Director Scott Arsenault should be credited with making sure that the production never sways too far in either direction. Music Director Clara Ohr has elicited good performances from the singers and the ensemble numbers hold together well...