Word: nosed
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...seem like passages to nowhere. Yet every new turn in the 8th century Moroccan city's crowded alleys leads to surprises: a glimpse of intricate architecture, a stunning historic mosque or the shop of a local artisan peddling his handcrafted wares. After a day just following your nose?and fending off the smiling but insistent merchants?it's rejuvenating to return to a home base that is secluded from the commotion, yet infused with the city's imperial grandeur. Your best chance of finding that is at a riad, one of the converted traditional villas built around courtyards that...
...real change in the power in families once a woman can earn," Thariani says. Her epiphany came, she says, when she heard the husband of one of the women say about his newly schooled daughter, "kind of with mock annoyance, 'That daughter of mine, she's always got her nose in a book.' That was a tectonic shift in these people's lives. These are no longer families of laborers. They're now educated families." The Tharianis--and the Pakistani girls--are the winners...
...Nichols ’06's expertise is beer. At a table in John Harvard’s, the self-proclaimed beer connoisseur has carefully made his selection. He picks up the glass and inspects it with a critical eye. He sniffs, he sips. Then, wrinkling his nose, he puts the glass back down. “This,” the co-founder of Harvard’s first and only Beer Society says, “is bad beer.” Beer aside, Nichols is best known on campus for resigning from his post as Undergraduate Council...
...process of becoming a woman, in Transamerica, a low-budget indie film about a transsexual father's road trip with her newly discovered teenage prostitute son. If people thought it was brave of Nicole Kidman to endanger her glamour by wearing a big prosthetic nose or Charlize Theron to put on fake teeth, Huffman is going to get the silver star. In one scene, for longer and in larger form than you might enjoy, her penis is visible...
...weekend off. Martin appeared poised in her first game action, on several occasions aggressively playing and covering pucks outside the crease, and finished with 16 saves.“She’s a good goaltender,” Stone said. “She likes to stick her nose in it. We saw that today. We have three really good goalies in this program and it’s the first time that’s ever happened.” Solley, returning to action after being assessed a game misconduct penalty the night before, provided all the offense...