Word: glimmerous
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...Still, this Easter I came home with a glimmer of hope: at some point, eventually, violence, whether it is the Mafia's or the IRA's, does burn itself out. People get tired of fighting, they settle for less, or put down their guns when they realize it just isn't worth...
...that these shenanigans are completely new to us. When you spend your life outfitting patients with the Joe Dokes Knee Prosthesis, you get a glimmer that Joe Dokes himself must be making some money on the thing. But there are 17,000 orthopedists in the U.S., and with this convention a large fraction of us came to the simultaneous realization that just about all of our teachers and mentors - the surgeons we hold in high regard, who do the important research, who work in the teaching programs, who write the papers and give us these lectures - are "consultants...
...audience forget that what they were doing was something that everyone in that room did every day. There was something more in this than the razzle-dazzle of the pasties or the sheer stage presence of the performers. I began to see in burlesque the glimmer, the shiver, of art. It was the pole dancing, though, that really convinced me. Performance artist Erin Markey started out with comedy, talking about trying to support herself after college by becoming a stripper. Markey had a cloud of puckish hair and dark-painted eyes, and she explained that the strip club had asked...
...finishes the book. When is it appropriate to bring race into a debate? Are prejudices so ingrained in our culture that no one is to blame? How can one ever know if racism’s to blame when racism still is never quite defined? Ford does offer a glimmer of hope that eventually, maybe one day, these questions will be answered. He does latch onto some specifics about how we can move past playing the race card. He does diagnose the problem of the race card: it hinders our progress in abolishing racism. And he does label the culprit...
...Surviving the Times” presents a scrapbook-style montage of images and memories from Nas’s life (and old videos). The video is so unpretentious and low-budget that if it weren’t for the occasional twinkle of old school bling or the sporadic glimmer of gold teeth, you might think you were watching an Indigo Girls video. Okay, only if you really squinted your eyes. Just when you start to feel overcome with nostalgia as blurry images of the “poet’s” native Queens flash before your eyes...