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Against Bachrach and Barrett, Roosevelt pit his stern family jaw and mild resemblance to NBC's Bob Costas--hardly a fair fight. Roosevelt pushed his heritage in his commercials, too, stressing a "family tradition of commitment and caring...
...police moved in and sealed the area. Surrounded by sharpshooters, Broussard talked to a priest for more than two hours. A friend and a police chaplain tried to persuade him to surrender as well. "Nothing worked," said Lieut. Tommy Cicardo. Broussard finally put the .45 to his jaw and pulled the trigger, as the local TV cameras rolled...
...Stanley Ipkiss dons a mystical mask, and shazam! all cartoon hell breaks loose. His face goes green; his teeth grow as large as porcelain pillows. When he spots gorgeous Tina on a nightclub stage, his eyeballs pop like demented Slinkys, his anvil jaw drops onto the table, and his tongue cascades from his mouth; it's a red carpet for a red-hot princess to walk on. His heart thumps about a yard out of his chest. He lets howl a wolf whistle Jack Nicholson would envy and bashes himself with a huge mallet...
...approval ratings have climbed recently, rising to 59%, according to the Los Angeles Times.) Republicans, as expected, make up the bulk of Clinton haters. But apart from obvious partisans, the group includes the Christian right and apolitical citizens who just don't like the cut of the President's jaw. In fact, say pollsters, some of the most intensely negative reactions to Clinton come from Americans who are his generational peers. According to Democratic pollster Michael McKeon, these are struggling and rebellious types who don't like what Clinton represents: high-achieving, highly educated fellow boomers who got ahead...
...what was above the neck, the skull confirms earlier constructs based on fragments: A. afarensis had an apelike face with a forward-thrusting jaw and an overhanging brow. The brain was no bigger than a chimp's, but it is now clear that Lucy and her kin were hardy enough to adapt to changing environments and thus to survive for some 9,000 centuries. And unless older hominid fossils are found -- always a possibility -- they will retain their distinction as the first evolutionary step that began to distinguish humans from other animals...