Word: denizen
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...avenues of another decadent empire, all of the loads in Shampoo's Los Angeles lead to George's beauty salon, where George sets the hair of beautiful women and then takes them home to bed. Moving between salon and bedroom, comb and penis, shampoo and sperm, George is the denizen of a bizarre world whose plastic kaleidoscopic glitter Beatty exploits in his farcical look into the sex scene of the L.A. beautiful people...
...Lewis and the Flyers quickly found a common ground. Like many of them, he began skating at the age of five in rural Waterloo, Quebec, and later played in a youth league. He turned to wordier pursuits when he proved too slow, small and contentious- he was a regular denizen of the penalty box- to continue in the sport. All the same, in the course of eight hours of interviews, Parent confided to Lewis various anxieties and ruminations that one might not expect of a hardened athlete...
...never expected all this fuss," says Yallop. "I know it is the same fish because it weighs about the same, and it was bruised in exactly the same place." At week's end Thames Water Authority officials were still staunchly insisting that the salmon was an authentic denizen of the Thames...
...tunes, he can be said to have prophesied pop art. In the incredible tensions he built up by playing one key or rhythm against another, or in the way he could move dreamily from tender simplicity to the densest of instrumental textures, he was a forward-looking denizen of the age of anxiety. He was in short an original...
More substantively: one of the eight or so degree recepients customarily is a denizen of the literary world. Ken Kesey and Allen Ginsberg are definite Longshots so leading the pack are John Updike '54 and Norman K. Mailer...