Word: parlor
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...leaping nimbly from web to web. As for most seven year olds, being a superhero was an important and consuming undertaking. My sons wore their bath towels as capes, referred to the basement as the Bat Cave, and had even gone so far as to rename the ice cream parlor with 32 flavors " Batman and Robins' ." So I knew that skipping Spiderman would be a challenge, but the voice of the developmental pediatrician who lectured during my residency kept me strong, "Rules give children boundaries and when they have boundaries they feel safe...
While many students spent last Friday afternoon packing for a long-weekend vacation, over 30 undergraduates gathered in the parlor room of Phillips Brook House Association (PBHA) to debate the purpose of traveling to perform social service...
...these events have revived Washington's favorite parlor game--"Who'll replace Cheney?"--which has been played ever since he needed a cardiac procedure after two months in office, but no one who knows the President well thinks he would cut Cheney loose. His remaining in power, however, does not tell you how much power remains to him. More than one friend who was sure Cheney would serve out his term--"barring the intervention of the Almighty," as an aide said--inadvertently spoke of the Vice President in the past tense while describing Cheney's standing. "Cheney didn...
Even so, he's not the type to keep an ordinary household. His downstairs parlor is crammed with tall cartons that contain the stretched canvases he has delivered regularly from London. On the stairway leading to his studio, somebody has tracked bright red paint up the carpet. Hockney lives here with John Fitzherbert, his companion for more than a decade, and a studio assistant, Jean-Pierre Goncalves de Lima. Hockney still keeps a place in London and another in L.A., where he plans to return in May. But until then he's in Yorkshire to paint landscapes through all four...
...Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder and bifocals. He entertained Enlightenment thinkers in the sitting room and took what he called "air baths," during which he opened the windows and sat naked in the parlor. In 1775 in the same parlor, he even tried to negotiate a compromise with William Pitt the Elder, but when that failed, he fled London under threat of arrest - just as the first shots were fired in Massachusetts. Time was not kind to the house: it took eight years...