Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Remembering how harsh the media was to her four years ago, we are left to wonder what has changed. Has the media turned over a new leaf? Or has Chelsea herself changed? One sentence can answer all our questions. Last year, when Chelsea first reappeared in the public eye on tour with her mother, two Newsweek reporters wrote a commentary praising Chelsea and how she had grown up so well despite the fishbowl phenomenon. Yet, in their surprise at Chelsea's new appearance, they wrote: Is this the same awkward orthodontically-challenged girl who moved into the White House three...
Hundreds of enthusiastic people enjoyed the Tibetan festivities while snacking ondesi, a rice dish sweetened by butter, sugar, raisins and dried fruits; and butter tea, a drink made with salt and "a special tea leaf...
...extra tutoring. As they rode home in the dark through the empty countryside, the eerie sounds of frogs and crickets would sometimes scare the brothers into frenzied pedaling. Street stickball was a welcome interruption. And whenever he could, Da-i would sneak off to the neighborhood store to leaf through comic books...
...Leaf Men By William Joyce (HarperCollins; $15.95) Sentimental and old-timey, The Leaf Men tells the teary tale of a sick old lady; her garden, which withers because she can't tend it; and a lost toy, a little metal man, that she misplaced years ago. This odd story is entomologically incorrect, no doubt, because it also deals with good bugs, bad bugs and a villainous spider queen who must be killed by the heroes--mysterious green leaf men. What make Joyce's book exceptional are his vivid paintings of a scary, moonlit tree climb to summon the leaf...
Come on, be honest: looking at pictures of other people's babies is about as interesting as watching cranberries grow--unless, of course, the images are the whimsical and colorful collages in Anne Geddes' Down in the Garden (Cedco; $49.95). Leaf through its amusing pages, and try to figure out how Geddes got her little models to hold still...