Word: growing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From the get-go, however, he does not dawdle over the fact that he intends to have his lonely men and women pair up in the end, his imaginative children grow out of their childhood fancies and his old couples stay happily in love and senility. But the stories are nevertheless tinged with graver shades and are not paltry...
...improve the Internet as a way of spreading the message about human rights in China. This advocacy includes both learning about those who live on the mainland and helping the Chinese gain knowledge about democracy in other countries. As the demands of Internet users from different backgrounds grow, the appearance of new technology and the lowering of prices will also be quickened. Only then will the Web be global, allowing people of different countries to exchange such ideas as democracy and freedom...
...part of aging, especially among light-skinned Caucasians, skin cancer is not. People who baked away on a beach during their youth are most prone to skin cancers 20 years later. "The sun can do them in," Tomecki notes. Warning signs are new hard bumps on the skin that grow larger, and rough and irritated skin patches that do not heal; sometimes they have a pinkish border. Most moles are harmless, but if they grow crust or bleed, you should see a dermatologist...
...eater who in other films would be gazed at and gossiped about, but here gets to tell us what we need to know. At least she's honest about herself. "I don't have a heart of gold," she says at the start. "And I don't grow one later, O.K.?" More than O.K., because Ricci embodies her with a brazenly unsentimental sass...
...entertaining story excruciatingly told. Malachy tries to reproduce his pub palavers, forgetting that all the ensuing laughter came from people gathered around him who were drinking or already drunk. The printed page is a less forgiving environment. There, gassy circumlocutions quickly grow tiresome. Liquor is never straightforwardly liquor but rather "the waters of life" or "the spirits that cheer" or "the squeezings of Bacchus." When Malachy meets an Irish actor, he does his all too customary stage-Irish routine: "Begod, Sir, you'd never think the man was from Cork, atall, atall..." And here is our thoughtful memoirist...