Word: nosed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President, if he were not the President, would have delivered a more forceful response to that, on the bridge of Mr. Safire's nose." --White House spokesperson Mike McCurry, on the President's response to New York Times columnist William Safire, who referred to First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton as "a congenital liar...
...Press secretary Mike McCurry told reporters today that, after reading Safire's Monday column, which called the first lady "a congenital liar," Clinton was so steamed, that "if he were not the president, would have delivered a more forceful response to that on the bridge of Mr. Safire's nose...
...intestines undigested, its effect in the mouth is like that of any oil. Oils have a strong chemical affinity for the aromatic compounds that give food its taste and smell; they extract these substances, spread them around the taste buds and waft them up to odor receptors in the nose. Oils derived from plants sometimes have aromatic compounds in them to start with, which is why olive oil, for example, has a distinctive flavor. Others, such as canola oil--and now olestra--have no taste of their...
...played the instrument of TIME with panache, style and virtuosity. In his three years at the helm of our flagship, Gaines has given TIME both energy and purpose, and his keen nose for news and for talent have made a great magazine even greater. Many of his covers will live long after their issue dates: the 20th Century Blues, the Case for Killing Social Security, and the Black Renaissance, to name just three. During his tenure, TIME superbly covered the war in Bosnia, the Newt Gingrich revolution and its effect on American politics, the O.J. Simpson trial and, most recently...
...Lewis were awesome. Their appearances on NBC's Colgate Comedy Hour made the viewer a co-conspirator in their anarchy; they broke the "fourth wall" as blithely as if it were a cardboard prop, and incorporated their famous arguments into gag lyrics for their duets. They worked literally nose to nose: Jerry would lick Dean's face; Dean would flick his cigarette ashes in Jerry's mouth (and lick Jer's face). It was primal therapy on the 12-inch screen, stripping bare a volatile marriage in all its grotesque intimacy--a bizarre comic display of love and resentment...