Word: pecked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Part of it is pure nostalgia. At the height of scooter mania in the 1950s, the sleek, steel-framed bikes were symbols of romantic escapism. Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn putted through Rome on a Vespa in Roman Holiday; it was a favorite toy of Hollywood's elite, including Gary Cooper and Jayne Mansfield. In 1960s England, while big, grease-sputtering Harleys were ridden by leather-clad Rockers, elegant Vespas were the signature of their archrivals--and regular rumble opponents--the fashionable Mods...
...each line and then to feed in a new sheet at the end of each page provide "micro-breaks" of the sort that doctors and physical therapists recommend for RSI prevention (the study remains to be done on the comparative incidence of RSI in touch-typers versus "hunt-and-peck"-ers, but it might prove instructional...
...stands tall against the gray London sky. Pigeons peck their way through stale breadcrumbs at the base of Lord Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square. Beefeaters--the red-coated protectors of the queen--escort crowds through the Tower of London into centuries past, when tyrannical monarchs severed heads and placed them on sticks to line the wooden bridges over the River Thames. Streets blur with red and black--the red of double-decker buses and the black of box-like taxis. This is the London everyone knows. But there is another London, where the neighborhood green grocer and ironmonger putter...
...Girls (who double as "extra dolls" and Cuban dancers)--Elizabeth Darst, Jody Flader, Mari Foreman, Esther Riggen, Jamie Smith and Phoebe Taubman--give performances of a lifetime. As "Hot Box" girls, they cackle and strut with such all-out campiness that it defies words (the "A Bushel and a Peck" number wins my vote for "Funniest Thing I've Ever Seen on a Harvard Stage"), and the spicy Havana dance scene both awes the audience members and heats up their blood. On the other end of the spectrum, the missionary leader Sarah Brown, played by Jaclyn Huberman, brings tears...
...state, the media was more interested in analyzing her "manly" style than her policies. Ally McBeal spends most of her time fretting over men and primping herself to look attractive, while male heroes of the Harrison Ford mold only have time to give their wives and girlfriends a peck on the check before they rush off to save the world...