Word: chinning
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...Witherspoon. Filling those knee-high patent pink leather tie-up boots is no doubt a demanding job. Arduous fans of the 2001 film will find her very obvious efforts to replicate every last one of Witherspoon’s somewhat inimitable facial expressions (largely dependent on the famous chiseled chin and popped rosy cheeks) charming and quite startlingly successful. And while Gulsvig brings nothing new to the table physically, she sings and dances and pouts and struts and costume-changes with inhumane speed, all of which combine to create an enjoyable overall experience. What was missing, however, was Witherspoon?...
...Raising Steaks, on the Beacon Beefsteak, a night of beef eating and male bonding: "It's every caveman for himself, clasping his meat like a hunk of mastodon, gnawing flesh that resists seductively before it yields, squirting fluids red with blood and fat over my hands and down my chin...Elbows out, the men sitting either side of me lunge for the platter to see who can sop up the most sauce with their bread and fill their triple-sized shot glasses from the bottles of Maker's Mark that line the tables, to see who can toss down...
...Jest was the quintessence of 1990s literary maximalism, and it became instant required reading. Enough with those '80s party-boy writers! Here was a novelist with the industrial-strength intellectual chops to theorize even our resolutely anti-intellectual age. Wallace became a reluctant literary pinup, with his stubbly outsize chin and his shoulder-length hair. He was America's No. 1 literary seed, at the top of a hierarchy that was, one suspects, largely meaningless...
...everyone was smiling, though. Seconds into the competition, after failing to find the wall 12-feet (4-m) below him, Mexican free runner Jorge Manuel Nava Romero broke his fall with his chin, losing teeth in the process. "Please don't copy this at home," cautioned the MC. (Romero, the announcer later added, was "all good" after his tumble...
...restoration is one of those things politicians say, like 'I owe it all to my lovely wife,'" says Tulane law professor Oliver Houck, who has been warning about land losses for decades. "Meanwhile, we keep building up the coast, no matter how many times we get hit in the chin. At some point the American public is going to stop paying for chin surgery...