Word: cherubic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have to service everyone out there or else they will isolate you." Eighty-five percent of Street Beat's clients are female; some have up to 20 clients a night. "The girls out here work; they buy drugs; they sleep; they are like robots," says Mary, 31, a cherub-faced woman who walks the streets in order to support her own and her mother's crack habit. Most work for very little money. "Sometimes they go for a trick for $2 for a hit of crack because they are hurting," says Daniel Zayas, 32, Street Beat field supervisor. And then...
...news show managed to make a sad private mystery into something of a game. As a fat cherub wiggled his wings in a corner of the screen, the telltale questions flew. Does he or she come home smelling of perfume or alcohol? Want too much or too little sex? -- whatever that means. Spend more time than usual at work? Finally, have you recently been found to have an STD (sexually transmitted disease...
Babyland -- that's what the gravedigger called it. Then he pointed to the far side of Houston's Hollywood Cemetery, where a sea of tombstones gives way to a grassy hillside. A dainty marble cherub, its head severed at the neck by vandals, guards the spot. Surrounding the lifeless angel are scores of infants' graves, most with modest plaques, one raising a silent protest: SO SMALL, SO SWEET, SO SOON...