Word: homely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest Blankie scare was just last September. I arrived safely at school, but my trusty fabric companion was inadvertantly left at home. (Note the passive voice.) "Mom!" I begged on the phone that night. "Send Blankie fast...
Thomas Hart Benton is admirable for his cussedness and independence, but these qualities are no guarantee of good painting, as a 100th-anniversary show in Kansas City proves. Benton's stylized regionalist scenes, writhing with down- home figures in buckskins and gingham, are caricatured and pumped and tarted up until the eye wants to cry uncle...
Where were you on the night of March 23? Out dancing, perhaps, or attending a PTA meeting or just sitting at home watching L.A. Law? If so, you did not realize how close you came to disaster. While you were blissfully unaware of the danger, a huge asteroid whizzed past the earth, coming closer than any other such heavenly body seen in 52 years. If the giant clump of rock -- half a mile across by one estimate -- had hit the planet, it would have packed the wallop of thousands of H-bombs and possibly killed millions of people...
Leaving the U.S., Hussein canceled a visit to Britain and returned home. He had cause for concern. Like Hussein, most of the rioters were Bedouins and thus had been considered his most loyal subjects...
Salvadorans fear the violence will escalate. Five days before the attack on Garcia, a bomb blast ripped through the home of another official of Cristiani's Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), Vice President-elect Francisco Merino, injuring one of Merino's seven children...