Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stolen art), he isn't satisfied with his first-draft images. As he revises and colors them in, he achieves a union with Nuala that, against all odds, isn't totally one-sided. The result is a reading experience as fresh and basic as lying down feverish on cool, clean linens with loving hands to tuck...
Some democrats are predicting a victory that will be swift, clean and total--if not on the floors of Congress then at the ballot box in November. Unlike tobacco, they say, this debate will not get caught in arguments over taxes and how to spend them. But that ignores the fact that it has been largely one-sided thus far. What opponents of reform will have to do is convince voters that the legislation would give them rights they don't need at a cost they don't want...
...waiting period? "It's hard for me to accept that a guy says, 'I'm going to kill that s.o.b., but, darn, I have this five-day waiting period.' He probably still wants to kill him after five days." Ban Saturday-night specials? "The black and Hispanic women who clean office buildings until 3 a.m. and then walk home--of course, they want a handgun in their purse." Limit purchases to one gun a month? "It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin--every one of these monsters...
...ANGELES: Roy Rogers was "King of the Cowboys" when cowboys sang and played guitar, when they rode all day and came home clean, soiled by neither dust nor sweat. When, rather than reveling in bloodshed, Clint-like, they simply shot the gun out of the villain's hand. By the time Roy Rogers -- husband to Dale Evans, rider of Trigger and friend to Gabby Hayes -- died Monday of heart failure at the age of 86, a lot had changed in Hollywood's Old West...
...horse's death in 1965 because Rogers "just didn't have the heart to put him in the ground." (Bullet received no such honor.) And to this day they eat at the restaurant chain that bears his name. Why did Roy Rogers endure? Probably because he always stayed clean. He married frequent costar Dale Evans in 1947, weathered the tragic loss of children in private, spoke at some of Billy Graham's revivals. He was lifelong friends with rival Gene Autry after supplanting him at Republic Pictures. Now that Roy Rogers has ridden into the sunset, it's easy...