Word: powderly
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...again. That Friday evening, Japan's TBS television broadcast footage of a man believed to be Kim Jong Nam walking to a cab. He was wearing a powder blue sport coat and pink shirt, and drinking a green beverage from a bottle. "Are you staying at the Mandarin hotel?" the reporter asked. "I cannot tell you," the man replied. "My privacy...
...stuff of fiction. Similarly, the Christ-like patience exhibited by Mr. and Mrs. Rogers in the face of Amelia Bedelia’s repeated blunders is pure fictive fantasy: No real-life employer would stand to have their house “dusted” with extra helpings of powder over every available surface. Amelia Bedelia keeps her job by virtue of a valuable non-verbal skill: world-champion baking prowess, which she shrewdly parlays into Mr. and Mrs. Rogers’s favorite dessert, lemon meringue pie. When she’s in trouble, she knows...
...looked every day since 1963. It is the hangers-on who partake in the activities of the film's title (though some of it reportedly staged) and do all the drugs - not the Stones, with the exception a blink-and-you-could-miss-it shot of Mick snorting powder off a knife. Keith Richards readies a rolled dollar bill, then plaintively signals the cameraman to turn away before he partakes. Perhaps most pointedly, beyond all the antics of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, the film is a testament to overexposure. Everybody films everybody, all the time, even when nothing...
...mountain clinics, tailoring ads to a woman's sensibilities or designing stylish, high-performance equipment fitted to the female physique, many of the nation's 478 ski resorts, as well as skimakers like Head and Rossignol, are doubling down to persuade newcomers and veterans to "touch more powder," as the Swiss say, so the industry can touch more revenue...
Soviet television viewers who watched the news one night last month glimpsed something extraordinary. There, on the screen, appeared scenes of a drug bust in Moscow, complete with pictures of needles and an unidentified white powder. While the camera showed police rushing into an apartment and arresting its occupants, an announcer explained how the suspects had tried to hide the goods, but to no avail...