Word: nail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which is a big if. Hersh's book amplifies some of the most radioactive stories of the Kennedy era. It also promises to nail down more than it does. Even that eyebrow-raising first chapter is a tease. If those dirty files exist, Hersh didn't get them. Don't look here either for a nuanced portrait of Kennedy's presidency. This isn't the kind of book that has much to say about the space program or the Alliance for Progress. And if the Kennedy name already has a cloud over it, Hersh's book comes to market...
...Silence of The Lambs's Ted Levine). Costa-Gavras insists that the FBI are simply caught up in the hubbub, trying to do their job as best they can; but when he depicts Bureau snipers blowing away a wax statue of a Native American in a botched attempt to nail Baily, one starts to suspect a hidden agenda. The writers cite Waco as their inspiration for the story, and a definite anti-FBI bias comes through loud and clear...
Rereading the Associated Press accounts, I get the eerie feeling that all this time, my faith in the accuracy of its coverage has been a bit too knee-jerk. If they can't nail the stories which I have first-hand knowledge of, what leads me to believe that they've got their act together on the ones that happen far away...
Ironically, Picasso doesn't really nail painting until he starts using a lot less paint. As we move into his more well-known work of the Blue and Rose Periods, we find that the surfaces become far more controlled, flatter and less overtly "painterly." Only when Picasso retreats from the heavily textured impasto of his earlier canvases do we feel his work becoming more assured and less self-conscious. Somewhere along the way he realizes that he doesn't need to prove he's a painter by giving the viewer countless energetic strokes and layers of thick paint...
...course, there's still a stigma. A middle-aged Beverly Hills stockbroker paints his toes but only shows his wife, according to Jeanne Chavez, Hard Candy's sales v.p. And Glenn Watamanik, 35, a foreign-currency specialist, wore his electric-blue nails to work at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange--just once. "Younger people thought it was cool," he says. "But the more conservative look at you like you're crazy." Some men reserve nail polish for "let's go out" time--with or without a date. "Women come up to my friend who wears nail polish and have something...