Word: hairs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...President sometimes barks at him just because he's there and can take it. At Bush's ranch, Gottesman, who makes $95,000 a year, sleeps in the senior-staff trailer, where he gets teased for his array of hair- and skin-care products in the shared bathroom...
...burgeoning scope of South Asian cultural confidence, yielding details of hundreds of art galleries, concerts, readings, plays and indie films. When I was invited back to Harvard for a South Asian night in 2001, I was ushered into a hall brimming with 1,500 heads of shiny black hair. "They'd better be careful," I quipped. "Soon this country will be run by people who look like...
...into it with my mother. In your 20s and 30s, if your mother tells you your hair is too long or your skirt is too short or your kids are slobs, you get into it. You get riled. You might even call her a bitch. When the vein throbs in my neck about something my mother does or says, I pour myself a little glass of Cabernet Sauvignon, and I sit down, and I feel very blessed that I have...
That was surprising to the would-be presidential candidates there, though the average blogger at Daily Kos is actually 45. Wesley Clark marveled, "I'm not the only one in this crowd with gray hair!" New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson mentioned the TV show Dallas, then said bloggers might be too young to get his allusion. An exasperated middle-aged attendee yelled, "We're not that young!" Former Virginia Governor Mark Warner seemed most clued in. He kept the speech at his late-night bash short and curried favor with a medium appreciated by all ages: free food...
...when we pay a lot for something, we assume it makes us happy, which is why we swear to the wonders of bottled water and Armani socks. The compulsion to care for our children was long ago written into our DNA, so we toil and sweat, lose sleep and hair, play nurse, housekeeper, chauffeur and cook, and we do all that because nature just won't have it any other way. Given the high price we pay, it isn't surprising that we rationalize those costs and conclude that our children must be repaying us with happiness...