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...book, is his father's favorite in part because, more so than the two other male Kim offspring, he has a take-charge personality. Kim regards Jong Chul, Jong Un's older brother, as being "girlish." And their older half brother, Kim Jong Nam, appears to be a flake, having been detained and deported in Japan in 2001 after traveling on a phony passport and claiming he wanted to visit Disneyland. Jong Un, Fujimoto writes, is different. He and his brother Jong Chul enjoyed playing basketball - but after the games, Jong Chul would just say goodbye to their friends...
...baroque period has a flowering genius who rises up as the most glorious expression of its style of life ... He is the first boy to become a millionaire within America's teenage netherworld." - Tom Wolfe, in his piece on Spector, "The First Tycoon of Teen" (The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby...
...Shit happens. Celebrities flake. You end up at the wrong Ivy. Or stuck on Long Island. Understandable...
...When you use a flake like this,” he said, picking up one of the small blades, “as soon as you start to use the edge it dulls down a bit. You need a lot of them to butcher an entire animal...
...hair, the greater extraction of information. Long hair can provide police with a two- to three-year history, whereas short hair may only reveal three to six months. Hair grows about half an inch a month; it also falls out. Every time we take a step, skin cells flake off our body and hair can do so just as randomly, though not as frequently. There are two kinds of hairs on our head: those in the growth stage and those that are not, which are the ones more likely to fall out. The non-growth-stage hair will have...