Word: goos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bowl of duck a la raspberry. Suddenly the biggest tiger licks his fearsome chops and smiles, because the souffle that is sticking to his face tastes good. He and his sidekicks order three Boston cream pies and settle down peacefully to munch, and the duck, still dripping raspberry goo, does a dance on the counter. Illustrations are cheerfully gaga, though clever three-year-olds will wonder why all the animals except the duck are wearing clothes...
Cora is funnier when she is keeping her distance from Ray. It is really too bad though, that she never works things out, because we feel always as if resolution is possible and that Ray could be good from her (in spite of the goo) if only she would grow...
...hard to conceive of a more painful occasion. You have to write sappy cards to your beloved. And turning to your friends at Hallmark is not acceptable--your words must be heartfelt and sincere. You have to fill the day with ardent professions of your love, all in goo-goo talk, of course. You have to go out to some ridiculously expensive dinner, attend some ridiculously expensive show, or take some trip to a motel with a heart-shaped tub and mirrors on the ceiling...
...been less than a week and already the results of last Tuesday's elections have been spun into the sort of black and white talk show goo that lets us all pretend that voters are predictable and politics easily analyzed. To those pundits who make their living pronouncing on trends so ephemeral only the commentators can see them, the truth is clear: This year's political theme is anti-incumbency. (I know, you thought that was last year's theme, but generalizations this useful have a way of hanging around...
...good news for residents of the Mississippi River Valley, who long after floodwaters have crested will play host to a chocolate-colored inland sea sprawling across the spine of the Midwest -- a stagnant, festering stew of industrial waste, agricultural pesticides and raw sewage that laminates buildings in goo and provides a superb growing environment for bacteria. The entire floodplain, says Anita Walker in Des Moines, Iowa, will be a "muddy, stinky, awful mess to clean...