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Word: lip (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Framed by lip balm on one end and lipliner on the other, girls' middle-school years are marked by revolutionary metamorphoses. A familiar story for our tragic heroes: In fifth grade, make-up piques their interest, for real. Mom's light green Clinique freebie lipstick peppered subtly on petulant mouths, a drama unfolds in the echoing stairwell. "Are you wearing lipstick...

Author: By J. S. Paul, | Title: BALM-OFF: three critical perspectives | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

Balm is a sensitive issue, plagued by flashbacks and the slippery slope to gloss. It takes a grown-up gel to shine and soothe. One silky salve, Kiehl's #1 Lip Balm, would never be caught at the end of a chain. But where would American lips be without a vapo-rub-down or bubble-gum flavored-wax? Softer, lighter, healthier. Balm is best when it comes from Kiehl...

Author: By J. S. Paul, | Title: BALM-OFF: three critical perspectives | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

...business trip to Little Rock, she and Clinton planned to meet in a hotel coffee shop to talk. To avoid reporters, he suggested they talk in her room. After a brief conversation, she claims, he pulled her onto the bed and forced her to have sex, biting her upper lip and causing it to bruise and swell. Clinton then told her not to worry because, as a result of childhood mumps, he was sterile. The last thing Clinton said as he put on his sunglasses and walked out, according to Broaddrick, was that she should get some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Woman, New Charges | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...well-known "The Child's Bath" of 1893, which displays a nurse or mother tenderly holding a child on her lap as she begins to wash the little girl's feet. The girl calmly balances herself on the woman's knee and seems about to bite her lip as she watches the woman gently washing her foot. This oil painting, like Cassatt's prints, shows evidence of the Japanese influence; the lines are simple and the layout of the picture is flattened, with the floor behind the woman and child pushed up so that the room becomes depth-less, forcing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blurring with the Wolves | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...grudge against him--old secretaries who had to correct his grammar on the letters they typed, the neighbor who had to deal with the leaves from the Hatch maple tree. Search his home. Maybe he has a secret fondness for donning embroidered platform shoes and elephant bells and lip synching to Barry Manilow. Why shouldn't the nation know about this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans Were Right, But-- | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

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