Word: face
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fifty," a young scalper was saying last Friday outside the Forum in Los Angeles. For two tickets? Face value for a single is an insane $125, and these bums aren't even in shape yet. "Two-fifty for one," says the scalper. "Five hundred dollars...
...pizazz. And some of the great brands have run out of room to show double-digit growth without bumping into one another. This week saw another tough quarter from Pepsi, which can seem to win only if it spends massively to take market share from Coke. Microsoft and Intel face far fewer constraints on their growth...
...like the Creature from the Black Lagoon or that we had nothing to talk about, but it was horribly uncomfortable. Our online exchanges had been about deep stuff: Did I believe in God? What did dreams of death mean? But in person, that connection evaporated, and I found myself face-to-face with a stranger who knew way too much about me. It was downright creepy...
...smoker? Overweight? Over age 55? Do you have diabetes? Heart disease? High blood pressure? If so, you face a higher risk of suffering a stroke. Save yourself and your family a lot of grief by identifying now which hospitals in your area are best suited to treating stroke. And learn the warning signs: sudden weakness, dizziness or falls; numbness or paralysis (especially on just one side) of the face, arm or leg; difficulty speaking; sudden dimming or loss of vision...
...longest, for 50 years, from the time they were students together at Columbia University just after the war. Though Ginsberg's aura toward the end of his life (he died in 1997) suggested Buddhist serenity, Podhoretz remembers him as "arrogant and brash and full of an in-your-face bravado," even a kind of fury. Ginsberg seemed to have a fixation on Podhoretz--possibly because he suspected that Podhoretz had his number as a personality-poet camouflaging mediocrity with an outrageous epater-le-bourgeois program (insanity is sanity; drugs are sacramental; homosexuality is holy; normality is horror). Podhoretz considered Ginsberg...