Word: pucker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...food that induces tears can also be helpful. Super-sour lemon candies pucker cheeks and make eyes round. Powdered seeds of rare, blistering Thai peppers can easily be concealed as a light red dust on the end of a pencil. An innocent chewing of the eraser will give the tongue a burning wake-up jolt that should last a good 15 minutes...
NAME: George ("the Boss") Steinbrenner AGE: 68 OCCUPATION: Yankee owner known for pink slips and helmet hair BEST PUCKER: Ended 14-year feud with Yogi Berra by telling him that having an underling fire Berra as manager in 1985 was "the worst mistake I've ever made in baseball...
NAME: Lawrence ("Yogi") Berra AGE: 73 OCCUPATION: Yankee Hall of Famer known for inadvertent drolleries BEST PUCKER: Said, inevitably, "It's over," accepted the Boss's apology and claimed he may show up at Yankee Stadium next season for the first time in 14 years...
...PRESENCE OF FIGURES By Samuel Bak At the Pucker Gallery 171 Newbury St. Through December...
...toes. Particularly amusing were "I Like to Play With Dolls," a quasi-ballad sung by Jed Eyenite, with its hero's admission that whenever there are brawls, "I'll be skipping 'round my garden, twirling parasols"; "Stick Out Your Chest," an ensemble number with lines like "You gotta pucker your lips,/ Throw out your tush,/ And shake your hips," and choreography to match (imagine a huge egg sticking out its, um, tush); and "I Am Not Adroit at Love," a torch song performed by 2N2N2R6 (Andrew A. Burlinson '97), a maladroit droid who laments, "I wanted his heart...