Word: cheeking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pomegranate pith, so we disguise our pursuit of Aphrodite in more acceptable forms: the pulse-racing perfume, the sexy dress, the dirty dancing, even the lofty status. No less a personage than Henry Kissinger asserted that view in the '70s. "Power," he said, perhaps with sparrow's tongue in cheek, "is the great aphrodisiac...
During a session with Boris Yeltsin, the party-boss-turned-populist, photographer Ted Thai found it impossible to get him to smile. "So I went over and tugged on his cheek to show him what I meant," Thai recalls. The tactic may have been unorthodox, but Yeltsin is hardly the orthodox Soviet politician...
...game of inches: get a little too close to a role model, catch him at the backstage entrance, and the loss can be desolating. Admiration is itself a form of suspended disbelief; turning a blind eye can be as much an act of forgiveness as turning the other cheek. We cannot afford to see our heroes at too close a distance -- not least because we have so few heroes to spare...
Atwater's appointment to the board was a marriage of convenience. The R.N.C. chairman wanted better ties with the black community, and Howard President James Cheek was eager to curry favor with the new Administration: the university depends on the Federal Government for more than $178 million, nearly 60% of its annual budget. Despite rumors of dissension among the 31 other trustees, all but one approved Atwater's election...
Wearing the suits instead of the normal casual wear apparently was a tongue-in-cheek response to word that NASA was trying to curb astronauts' penchant for fun. Officials reportedly were annoyed by a televised show two missions ago when the crew floated through the shuttle cabin wearing colorful Hawaiian shirts...