Word: esteli
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...corner of Brook Avenue and East 138th Street, where he sometimes used to hang out in the winter with Popeye, Angel and Shorty, he can see up to 15 buildings that have been torched or abandoned. Despite the wreckage, according to Ramos, Brook Avenue is still the struttin'est street in The Bronx. On fine days it over flows with hip dudes, good music and fine reefer...
...skin-care products now being sold to men are as varied as anything ever served up to humanity's traditionally more wrinkle-conscious sex. Estée Lauder, purveyor of expensive creams, lotions and fragrances for women, offers a gilt-edged line of 70 different men's products under the Aramis label. Included in the list: pre-shave cleansing soaps to reduce razor drag and facial scrubs for use on the nose and forehead...
...course, no manifesto means anyone can be counted a part of the conspiracy for marginal reasons--for example, a corporate exec who goes into est and "gets it"--which would make the network appear much larger than it really is. And with no political approach, how can it succeed, except through the nebulous "power of good ideas...
...WHAT DO I KNOW, as Montaigne used to say? You could write five books about what I don't know about Black music and you still wouldn't be finished. All I can tell you is that I dug it. And if de gustibus non est disputandum, hell, I don't know much Latin either...
Patriotism has most often gone wrong when people have confused loyalty to the republic with loyalty to one government or another. Political leaders almost invariably seek to legitimize themselves by the d'etat, c 'est moi "strategy that makes their own interests inseparable from the well-being of the country itself; disloyalty to one becomes disloyalty to the other. Thus the Nixon Administration had it that its critics were unpatriotic. J. Edgar Hoover used the FBI to try to destroy the lives of "unpatriotic" Americans like Martin Luther King...