Word: gummed
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...some of my hair into millimeter-long shreds, apply spirit gum (a costume adhesive) to my face and dab the hair onto my chin. It’s unconvincing—the hair is too long and it lies in all directions on my face, like a grove of pine trees felled by a hurricane...
We’ve finished our forties and all the bingo prizes have been doled out. I go home empty-handed. It’s time to cross back over whatever social boundary I transcended by slathering my face with spirit gum. The goatee washes off with rubbing alcohol, and the striped socks come out of my underwear soundlessly. Voila! I’m a woman again...
Literature: “I feel that your dishes are lacking in originality and embellishment. Your culinary lassitude is deplorable. My palate must needs [sic] seasoning! Too long have I been forced to lamely gum down your pasta-jelly like some dyspeptic retirement cronie. I need not enemas, I need spice! Are we not good enough to taste the smart bite of but a little peprika? Is cumin too high, nay, too noble for us to delect? Where is oregano, with her gentle paws, lingering like flapdashes upon my breast (of chicken)? Oh heaven, why must my salad go alone...
...Bubble-gum pop need not be rated “G”—does Dartboard really miss the Osmonds...
...three wore billowy robes, and the women adorned their heads with burqa-like coverings--the threesome was hard to ignore and at times seemed to flagrantly court attention. On Sept. 27, Mitchell had the first of two brushes with law enforcement when he was picked up for shoplifting batteries, gum, a flashlight and a beer from a supermarket. His name, he told police, was "Go with...