Word: cheeking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seated, he feels the warm sun sculpt his cheek...
Critics called it the garage sale of the century. Tongue-in-cheek comparisons were made with the opening of King Tut's tomb. But the auction of more than 10,000 items owned by America's most infamous artist, which ran throughout last week and had two more days to go this week, turned out to be a fitting tribute to the huckster of hype. "If he's sitting up there watching, he's probably having a ball," said Diana Brooks, president of Sotheby's North America, which conducted the sale in its Manhattan showrooms...
Because of these group-to-group variations, "there is not too much potential for overlap," Krok Director Frusztajer says tongue-in-cheek. "You'd probably never catch the Kroks singing a Din and Tonics song like "Walk Like an Egyptian...
...also allegedly been taking female hormone injections to stop facial hair and to keep his voice high, undergone silicone facial implants to reshape his cheek bones, chemically bleached and surgically peeled his skin to make him whiter, and had a chin cleft added...
That same turn-the-other-cheek liberalism, that deep reluctance to directly confront Jackson, a black man, continued to plague Michael Dukakis. The morning after the Connecticut primary, the victorious Massachusetts Governor appeared with Jackson on the Today show. Jackson immediately seized control by congratulating Dukakis, then adding dismissively, "You did well with your home-field advantage." Dukakis laughed nervously and fell silent. The incident was an apt symbol for the Dukakis dilemma: the need for the earnest gears-and-levers technocrat to combat the powerful passions of a black preacher...