Word: fleetingness
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In a business where success is fleeting and burnout comes fast, Carson's durability is not only unprecedented, it is almost unimaginable. An Iowa-born, Nebraska-raised standup comic and host of a popular game show, Who Do You Trust?, Carson replaced Jack Paar as host of NBC's Tonight...
The movie's Mambo Kings become famous in the mid-'50s for one hit album, some saucy nightclub gigs and a fleeting appearance on the I Love Lucy show (reconstructed here with artfully interpolated footage of the brothers, Lucille Ball and, standing in for his dad, Desi Arnaz Jr.). But...
Our candidates can be forgiven, then, for breaking the taboo on the mention of class. But now that they've gone this far, why not take the rest of the marbles out of their mouths and refrain from using middle class as a muffled code meaning not poor? After all...
Even that fragile safety could turn out to be fleeting. The last team of allied military observers plans to leave its base in Zakhu in June. Aid workers from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, who have kept the Kurds from starving, may be pulling out in April.
Sticking a ski pole into the ground for leverage and vaulting a couple of meters forward to the accompaniment of rock music from a boom box. Wiggling back and forth on skis around a series of powdery bumps, periodically climbing these hillocks to leap off, flinging one's limbs spread...