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...1990s incarnation of the flower child, theoutdoorsy crunchy crunch dons a forest green orHeath-bar brown Patagonia jacket. Tevas withwoolen socks, trade beads strung on leather neckwear. FOP T-shirts from the mid 80s on top of greylongjohns or thermal underwear. Alternativefootwear: Birkenstocks worn down to peach fuzz...
...Governor of North Dakota came under fire from disapproving legislators who discovered a radar detector -- legal in North Dakota -- in his truck. Sinner explained that the fuzz buster was a gift from his children. Said he: "It's sort of a sacred, emotional thing...
Across town at the pool hall, three crooks sat around a card table playing a desultory game of seven card no peek, while waiting for the fuzz to arrive. In between dealing hands and looking for ways to cheat, Brett Langenderfer, 27, of Woodbridge, Va., explained that he was pretending to be wanted on a charge of interstate theft. When the agents stormed the building, Langenderfer tried to flee down a back stairway. "They call me the 'Rabbit' because I always run. It really gets the adrenaline going when the cops arrive, almost like rushing out of the locker room...
Well, all right. When O'Connor was last in the U.S., in 1988, she had shaved her head bald, an attention-grabbing device that suited a time when she could hide behind the intricacies of her songs. Her hair these days is a half-inch black corona of fuzz, but she has never been shy about speaking out. "I would rather be compared to Patti Smith than anybody," she says. "I don't want to be compared to people like Suzanne Vega, because I don't like wishy-washy music." She declines to analyze her own work but is keen...
...apocalyptic." Last summer Francis Fukuyama, a State Department planner, resolved the matter peacefully. He published an article proclaiming the "end of history," a result of the worldwide triumph of Western liberal democracy. Hence this is the posthistoric age, a fourth dimension in which the human pageant terminates in a fuzz of meaningless well-being. Intellectuals sometimes nurture a spectacular narcissism about the significance of the age they grace...