Word: pokes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...insult his hair and poke fun at his syrupy songs, but unless you want bellyaching from MICHAEL BOLTON, don't cast aspersions on his charity. The New York Post reported that the Michael Bolton Foundation, which purports to help women and children in distress, in 1995 gave away only 15% of the money it raised. The 1996 figures were missing. Bolton, who said the allegations made him "sick to [his] stomach," immediately hired a crew of suits, including an emergency spin doctor, to clear things up. Meanwhile, the charity announced that expenses were high in 1995 because of fund-raising...
Have husbands really evolved from hunters and gatherers into nurturers and helpmates? I don't think so. A yuppie dad I know puts Junior in the Snugli, hits the gourmet market, lights the grill, and then boasts of fixing dinner and tending baby. Poke a superdad in the middle of the night and quiz him on his kids' shoe sizes, their birthday-party preferences or Sara's science-fair entry. Tops, he nails two out of three...
...press conference last month, trendy indy film king Quentin Tarantino expressed his eagerness to "poke out the eye of the monster on Broadway." One wry onlooker commented, "I don't expect to see a one-eyed Frank Rich ['71] walking around anytime soon...
...Coens also poke lots of gentle, knowing fun at the bowling alley which forms the backdrop for many funny scenes. Several wildly imaginative dream sequences use bowling motifs in unexpected ways: in one dream the camera takes the somewhat woozy point of view of a rolling bowling ball, and later Saddam Hussein rents out bowling shoes (it's the early '90s, remember...
...again, the U.S. will slap him down. But they are skittish about provoking a sleeping beast and fear he might retaliate. They don't trust Saddam's judgment under bombardment, assuming that he could use his terror weapons as a last resort. A Jordanian official says, "You don't poke a lion...