Word: nesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freed Quinonez, the wife of a former Salvadoran ambassador, who had been kidnaped from her home in Florida a week earlier. "I was flabbergasted," she said, praising the FBI's flawless rescue, which was executed before any ransom was paid. "It was just like watching TV, like Eliot Ness...
...purpose to fly mountains, to sow petalscent. . . to glorify glory, to love with love." His bride answered: "We hereby commit ourselves to a serenity more flamboyant and more foolish than a petalfall of Magnolia." And the bridegroom came back thus: "This is the purest double helix of our us-ness...
...related development, Gary Ness of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau said he filed a class-action complaint. Thursday on behalf of all tenants, seeking a preliminary injunction on evictions...
...number called The Message. Flash and the crew are treach, which is short for treacherous and slang for what a decade ago would have been called superfine. Grandmaster favors leathers, tip to toe, and has FLASH spelled out in lightning-bolt letters on the back of his jacket. Mr. Ness, of the Furious Five, favors metal studs, while his compatriot, Melle Mel, currently opts for fur. This is work wear, not street clothing, but Melle Mel knows what message they are putting across. "It gives you a more dominant, primitive look. We dress like this because...
SUCH DISSECTION makes one painfully aware not just of Jacob's essential un funny-ness as a commentator--she takes Woody with too much desperate seriousness to get any further than a string of "this is hysterical" --but also the delicacy of the task she has taken on. If writing about Woody seemed like a glowing, as-yet-un-snatched opportunity, the flip side is that a talent so multifaceted and subtle as his cannot be helpfully reduced to a series of art-vs.-life and success-vs.-integrity conflicts, or even to a run-of-the-mill Freudian manifestation...