Word: eyeteeth
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...crimes against humanity, losing sight of the ambiguous and magical ways in which novels, poems and plays really operate. (To make matters worse, a lot of that criticism is written in indigestible nuggets like "reification" and "de-contextualizing.") Says Alter: "The bulk of academics cut their eyeteeth in the student revolution. They keep pushing the impulse to transform the country by transforming their students...
Before Heather takes a Celica for a test spin, her mother confides, "She would give her eyeteeth for this car." Afterward Toyota salesman Richard Misheikis tells mother and daughter that "there's not too much flexibility" in the $14,638 price. Figuring just a $6,000 trade-in allowance plus some options, the cost works...
...women who were eager to improve their lot, but had never been involved in the political process before, could be kept in order long enough even to discuss, let alone vote, on all these issues. Order was achieved by the kind of discipline any male politician would give his eyeteeth to attain...
...mother in Happy Mother's Day . . . Love, George in 1973, but the movie flopped. Recently John Houston saw her and flipped; she was offered the only female role in his movie The Man Who Would Be King on condition she slimmed down by 20 lbs. and had her eyeteeth capped. She dieted so enthusiastically she became ill, only to learn the part had gone to the wife of Michael Caine, the film's star. "I cried all night...
Which one of us. Nate, would not give his eyeteeth to leave the hurley-burley of megalopolis for such an idyllic paradise? I know I would. Incidentally, I shall be absent from Cambridge the next few weeks as pressing business summons me to Johannesburg. yrs very truly, Henry Kissinger April...