Word: gels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Balm is a sensitive issue, plagued by flashbacks and the slippery slope to gloss. It takes a grown-up gel to shine and soothe. One silky salve, Kiehl's #1 Lip Balm, would never be caught at the end of a chain. But where would American lips be without a vapo-rub-down or bubble-gum flavored-wax? Softer, lighter, healthier. Balm is best when it comes from Kiehl...
...responded to the impeccable taste of teenage girls by bestowing the Grammy nomination on the Backstreet Boys. The award for Best New Artist traditionally portends greatness for its recipient and recognizes the musical achievement of hard-bodied young stars. But there are some naysayers, some files in the hair gel, who claim that the Boys are hardly qualified to be given an award that has gone to the likes of Tracy Chapman (1988) and Bruce Hornsby (1986). To them, I say let's take a look at how the Boys stack up against their competitors...
...Dozens of pinprick-size containers are each filled with about 25 nanoliters of liquid, gel or solid and covered with a thin gold film. The chip is then immersed in a liquid containing low concentrations of chloride ions (like those found in human bodily fluids...
...give their best shot to keeping the ball in the air, but for one thing, their presence is almost arbitrary in many scenes to the extent that Mary's humor is all visual and only rarely connected to dialogue; poor Cameron could be reciting Rilke beneath those "hair gel"-enhanced bangs and no one would know the difference. Then again, everyone else seems to have had a ball. Whatever there is about Mary, I didn't really get it. Nicholas K. Davis...
...boys whowould lie to me and think solely about themselves,/ Dear Marcus / You rocked my world / You had acharismatic way about you." Yet, the song wouldn'tmake sense if the music didn't complement theunusual form. Each "letter" seems packaged in itsown mini-song--the verses (seeminglyintentionally) never gel...