Word: embellishing
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...ACTORS EMBELLISH THEIR BACKSTORIES...
...Artists just aren’t given this kind of freedom to embellish the space today,” says Pocobene...
Horn's first big battle will be over welfare reform, which the President will promote this week. The 1996 reform that ended welfare as an entitlement needs to be renewed this year, and Horn wants to embellish it with $300 million in experimental programs to promote marriage. The money, given in grants, could go to things like family-therapy centers and health clinics that offer courses in parenthood or prewedding counseling...
...captain has to maintain composure, and I did, at that tragic moment. On Saturday, having been reassigned, I was able to address the crew over the announcing system, and I reminded them to maintain integrity, to remember what they saw, not to add or embellish anything, because the truth will get us through this event. I loved my crew and feel proud to be a naval officer. That day I kind of felt like Job in the Old Testament--I lost my crew, lost my command and felt my faith was being tested...
...parenting skills. "I just felt he was such a pig," she says. So she stopped talking to him--for seven years. "I come from a long line of grudge holders," she says. "They like their grudges. They air them and walk them and make jokes about them--embellish them...