Word: lathers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...must have been keenly aware of that fact one morning last week when he stretched a tentative toe into his green-tinted bathtub, while he gazed at his face with its little mustache and flopping hair, as he covered his chin with lather (at the Berghof the great dictator is his own barber), while he sipped his Chinese tea, spooned his porridge and chewed his morning toast...
...locals were worked into a lather last week not by media parasites but by the fear that Brentwood would be misread by the outside world...
...everyone is in a lather. World-history professor Dan Sipe uses Keene's work in discussing everything from economics to philosophy. As in, What is art? (It was Sipe's musings that prompted drawing professor Steve Sherman to call him a gasbag, at which point the argument degenerated into obscenities.) Art-history student Heather Nash, a Keene fan, says, "I've never seen an exhibit here that produced this much enthusiasm." She's talking about the visitors--some of them doing their holiday shopping--who wait for the gallery to open each day. Darren Check, a law student at Temple...
This time the entire populace has been worked into a lather over bicycles. Or cars. It depends on which side you're on. What began five years ago as a monthly rush-hour bicycle ride designed to make the point that cycling is a sensible alternative to driving in a city choked by traffic, has escalated into a war. On the last Friday in July, 5,000 cyclists participating in what is known as the Critical Mass bikeathon, jammed city streets, and the result resembled an episode of American Gladiators. Hemorrhaging cyclists and motorists squared off to scream, spit...
...book-signing event in a horse-drawn coffin and wears beaded headdresses on her more understated days--an arbiter of good taste. They also note that her sensitivity to neighbors' wishes isn't as pure as the blood of a virgin. She worked Catholics into a lather last year when she bought their chapel for her own use even as her hit novel Memnoch the Devil, which recounts Creation from Satan's viewpoint, filled her coffers...