Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Moscow, has a lucrative profession. He sells the sexual services of small boys. His base of operations is a garden in front of Moscow's magnificent Bolshoi Theatre, where both local and foreign clients know to seek him out. Sasha pimps for a number of male teenagers who hang out with him near the Bolshoi, but his main "team" consists of three younger boys -- Marik, 8, and Volodya and Dima, both...
...while mountaineers tend to be sentimental anarchists, so the latter may view Farabee's remarks with high suspicion. Does "need to be held more responsible" hint that another shoe is about to drop, this one on mountaineers' grand, airy freedom? The phrasing sounds grumpy and disapproving. Rescuers' rears will hang out no matter how rescue costs are paid. Will there be an official effort to check climbers' credentials, now nonexistent...
...kind of know we all exist, but we're all too busy to hang out and schmooze," says Danziger Associate Professor of Economics J. Bradford De Long, who is now deputy assistant secretary of the treasury for economic policy. (He adds that he has yet to find an adequate substitute in the nation's capital for Out of Town News...
...least it is easily portrayed as unseemly by a lazy-minded Washington press corps, whose members are doubly envious -- of the show-business clique for supplanting them as the coolest people in town, and of the Clintonites for getting to hang out with Streisand & Co. Washington reporters' lust for proximity to stars is at least as intense as the Clintons' (it's the journalists who shamelessly drag trophy stars to the White House correspondents' dinner every spring), so naturally they are quick to detect a groupie instinct in Clinton, and to give a knee-jerk, pseudo-high-minded critique...
...example--"I too would become a Jew...Why not? I already speak like a Jew. And I am as ugly as a Jew. Besides, who hates the Jews more than Jews?"--and then explains this passage as just an example of "Henry's lifelong habit of letting it all hang out." There may be a way to contextualize Miller's anti-Semitism. "Letting it all hang...