Word: piã
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...most, always approachable, rarely approached. Carson was in danger last week of posthumous teddy-bearization, with eulogists praising him as "calm" and "gentle." That wasn't even true of his TV persona--he laced his humor with sarcasm and sexual danger, and he batted Ed McMahon about like a pi??ata. In private Carson was standoffish and in his marriages admittedly no saint. His jokes about his serial monogamy endeared him to viewers, but you don't rack up three divorces by being a harmless sweetie...
...Social Security point to a system of personal savings accounts in Chile that is widely regarded as a success. In contrast to Britain's plan, Chile's is compulsory and presents workers with only a handful of conservative, income-oriented investment options. The architect of Chile's plan, José Pi??era, is now a co-chairman of the Cato Institute's Project on Social Security Choice and has conferred with Bush on the subject...
...fate of the Pi??€™s reputation was sealed by 1991, not least after a Crimson article claimed “the club maintained an unsanitary ‘mattress room’ for sexual exploits and promoted the room in its newsletters...
...characterization or narrative, a spectacularly large amount of violence and almost all of the Jews are evil Christ-killers. In Gibson’s mania to present the extent of Jesus’ suffering, character is lost, and by the end of the film, Jesus begins to resemble a pi??±ata more than a man. The effect is that it is hard to understand quite what the point of all this is. It is never clear why he is so dangerous. It is never clear why everyone is so passionate about this presence, who, in the film, shows...
...characterization or narrative, a spectacularly large amount of violence and almost all of the Jews are evil Christ-killers. In Gibson’s mania to present the extent of Jesus’ suffering, character is lost, and by the end of the film, Jesus begins to resemble a pi??±ata more than a man. The effect is that it is hard to understand quite what the point of all this is. It is never clear why he is so dangerous. It is never clear why he doesn’t take his numerous opportunities to speak...