Word: legging
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...filing the pages with rich detail like the one about raclette, a cheese you melt and pour over sliced potatoes and ham. Bucolic vistas of snowy woods and mountains soon give way to sunbathers when, at the end, Thompson swings through the south of France and Barcelona. This final leg includes encounters with a number of other cartoonists, like Louis Trondheim and Charles Burns, who contribute cameo sketches of their own. In spite of all this, Thompson continues to struggle with the alienation of travel. Then, at last he makes a happy connection that, even if it didn't happen...
...agreement through direct negotiation between yourself and some external force. Here, the irrational belief is that by changing an aspect of your situation, you can change the entire situation. Throughout the bargaining stage, the student presents himself with options. Perhaps If I slip in the bathroom and break my leg University Health Services will write me a note excusing me from class. Or maybe if I e-mail the professor and kill off another relative (miraculously, I had five grandparents die last semester) he’ll pity me. After pacing around my room I have a realization...
There are millions who bear the marks of membership--the zipper scar down the center of the chest, another long scar worming along the inside of the leg where the tubing was stripped out to jury-rig the heart's new plumbing. (Over the years I have had two multiple-bypass operations, done in the same hospital where yours was performed. My last operation was 11 years ago. I played squash last night for an hour...
...accident that McGraw, 37, has turned his professional obligation into a campaign whistle-stop. "I love politics," he says on the way back to his dressing room. "I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg--everything." Then, because such things must be floated carefully and modestly, McGraw adds, "I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since...
...strengths of the squad is its kicker Tyler Lavin, who has a booming leg. And quality kicking is important in close games. Which means it shouldn’t matter much against Harvard, Yale or Penn...