Word: puff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...designed solely to distinguish your coat from the thousands of cheaper models hanging in secondhand shops throughout the nation. The window pane checked Ferragomo coat is nice example, particularly when compared to the coccoon coat from Callaghan--an attempt, I guess, to evoke the fond memories of the Stay-Puff Marshmallow...
...event of an accident at ADL, according to Weedon, a puff of nerve gases released into the atmosphere outside the North Cambridge laboratory "would result in not one public fatality...
...games, like snake, cool cat and fox," said 10-year-old Jessica from the Agassiz School. "We learned to wriggle like a snake, stretch like a cool cat, and jump like a fox. In the show, me and my friends do ballet barrels. We pretend we're barrels and puff up our cheeks and stuff like that...
Bobby Giaquinto's wife is "a soft, pale girl who bruised easily and feared penetration." As compensation, he brings a succession of sad, passionless women to his office, and there on the couch Bobby proceeds to make sad, passionless love. Between affairs, the magazine writer cranks out puff pieces about celebrities. He hates his life, his frustrating marriage, the hack work that gets him through...
Hoffmann's lively imagination reflects a keen understanding of children and an ability to make this perception appeal to all readers Marie is his special creation and he makes us feel her pain as the clock is stabbed by the clockmaker's tools. Within this sugar-puff setting, we appreciate the somber purity and beauty that Hoffmann so prizes. Only a hopeless romantic could create a nutcracker who addresses his lady in "a little bell like voice: Dear sweet Marie. Protectress mine. Thou standest by me and I'll be thine." And within the bizarre tale of Marie's adventures...