Word: chews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life full of love is like being a poor person with a refrigerator--you don't have one," and "Life's a marathon and then you run one." Best of all is the aphorism: "Life's a piece of shit and then you bite off more than you can chew, maybe, but you don't break your back...
MEXICO: SPLENDORS OF THIRTY CENTURIES, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. This monumental show bites off more than it -- or you -- can chew. But it makes you want to go to Mexico, to know this vast, vivid, fierce visual culture better. Through...
...this show bites off more than it -- or you -- can chew. But it makes you want to go to Mexico, to know this culture better, and on its own terms. As cultural diplomacy, it is a vivid success...
...that Bush spends so much time greeting luminaries and other visitors that he has little time to mull over the great problems of the day. Here the White House erred badly by overdirecting: rather than making it possible for Brokaw and his crews to tape what Bush does best -- chew the fat with advisers for hours on end -- the White House allowed the cameras to record only the first three or four minutes of each meeting. These brief segments produced conversations that seemed stilted and staged...