Word: heavenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them. To make matters worse, this superb, balanced, record-setting, stunningly appealing team is not only wearing the loathed pinstripes; it's wearing pinstripes supplied by George Steinbrenner, for heaven's sake. Somehow this man--this bully, this human plague--has got far enough out of the way to allow the assembly of as close to perfect a baseball team as anyone under 70 has ever seen...
...from one simply overcast. But a novel kind of darkness has come over Florida, and there is no hurricane in sight. What do you do when you're ready for rain and all that comes down is ash, falling like snow but dark and devilish and warm, from a heaven angry with smoke? Run, or get ready to be burned on the Fourth of July...
...need to exercise (which, by the way, also decreases insulin levels). As a general rule, she adds, "the more processed a food, the less healthy it is. But [the glycemic index] can be carried to an extreme." So, eat your carrots, order up some whole-wheat toast and, for heaven's sake, get off that couch...
...movies and on television, Indians have traditionally been cast as powerful shamans, ruthless savages or downtrodden drunks living in tar-paper shacks. Not in Alexie's world. Throughout Smoke Signals--which he adapted from his 1993 short-story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven--he doesn't just challenge stereotypes, he pokes fun at them. In his tale of two young dudes who leave "the rez" on a road trip of personal enlightenment, the characters ruminate about everything from Dances with Wolves to a native staple known as fry bread. They also shoot hoops, eat at Denny...
...second impulse was to repeat what Jonah said when asked by the shipmates of his foundering skiff to identify himself: "I am a Hebrew, ma'am. And I fear the Lord, the God of Heaven, who made the sea and the dry land." But that would surely have got me sent to psychiatry rather than X ray. So I desisted...