Word: fro
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...astringent completeness of the Michigan woods in early Hemingway. Perhaps no painting has ever conveyed a hunter's anxiety better than Hound and Hunter, with its flustered boy in the dinghy trying to get a rope on a shot stag's antlers before its corpse sinks, lurching to and fro in a cave of forest darkness and disturbed silver ripples...
Being on trial for murder is a hair-raising experience, no doubt about it. So let's all forgive PHIL SPECTOR for the 'fro he sported in court last week, where the storied pop-music producer stands accused of having shot actress Lana Clarkson at his home in 2003. (The high heels he wore to court are less explicable.) The judge decided to allow testimony from four women claiming that Spector--who in better days worked with the likes of the Beatles--threatened them with guns. The defense called the accusations completely untrue and said the women were just seeking...
Lost in all the ideological to-and-fro was any sense of what exactly the CDC study found and what it actually means. Basically, its authors concluded from three recent health surveys of the U.S. population that being obese--as well as being underweight--is associated with a greater number of deaths than being of normal weight. Researchers will argue about just how much the results are skewed by thin people who are losing weight because they are dying, but the basic findings are undisputed...
...wear a wig for That 70s Show? The last two years I did, because of film work. Once we realized how great the wig worked, I was kicking myself. I'd had the 'fro for five years...
...bows in the string section flew up and down in impeccable unison, while the trombonists in the back moved their slides to and fro...