Word: chews
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Running on Empty The headlines were too much about Gary Condit, a conservative California Congressman, and too little about Chandra Levy, his intern, whose disappearance made the anonymous pol, who ultimately admitted to a friendship with the 24-year-old, Larry King's favorite chew toy. His shameless efforts to save his rep instead of aiding the investigation confirmed the public's worst views of politicians. He apparently interpreted September's events as a reprieve: Levy is still missing, Condit is running for re-election...
...fact that a hero who is broadly sketched and less than intelligent is less than engaging, a shlumpy George also doesn’t fit with a character whose artistic style is deliberate, methodical and purposefully experimental—and whose comments are frequently barbed and condescending. Like Zschau, Chew also improves in the second act. While he remains more insecure and less in command of the stage and his world than appropriate, he closes the show with his strongest acting and singing of the evening...
...they should be designed to enhance our perception—to jog us out of our complacent and simplistic emotional response. They should not encourage us to sit idly intellectually, grinding the world’s problems into a mush we won’t have to chew before swallowing...
...beachside city 100 km south of Tokyo. "I tried to break the system from the outside," he said recently in an interview at his home. "Koizumi is trying to do it from the inside." Now 63, the former Prime Minister concedes he bit off more than he could chew. "I look back and realize how strong this system is, how very deeply rooted in Japanese culture it is," he says. But he betrays no bitterness toward his adversaries or regrets about his all-too-brief run of power. "If we hadn't done what we did, Koizumi couldn't exist...
...learned how to sit in my tree for a whole hour." Creech's prose is accompanied by the witty illustrations of Harry Bliss, a New Yorker cover artist and cartoonist. On one page, a lunchroom wall is adorned with a sign that implores, WHY NOT STUDY WHILE YOU CHEW...