Word: puss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First there are the blond-haired good looks: striking but somehow wholesome, more high school prom queen than Hollywood glamour puss. Then there's the rich, honeyed voice: husky and authoritative, but free of the severe tone affected by some females in TV news. As a reader of the news, she is masterly: businesslike but warm, her eyes now wide with the drama of the day, now crinkling ever so slightly with concern. Diane Sawyer doesn't just deliver the news, she performs...
Carter loves to recreate old stories. That is her hallmark, despite the fact that she is often marketed as a feminist. A previous collection of her short stories, The Bloody Chamber, includes Carter's elaborate versions of Little Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Beauty and the Beast, and Puss in Boots...
Young Georges-Marie, 9, has, as his cousin Bienville tartly notes, "more names than Jehovah," among them Moumou, Puss and the Dauphin. This spectrally beautiful, thin, pale child speaks a bewildering mixture of French and "Ol' Kintuck," the hayseed dialect he absorbed during his brief exposure to Governor Davis' three strapping sons: "O, he jest being plain bad. O, il m'echappe toujours!" All the Sioux are holding their breath to see how George takes to Castleton. Armand reassures his brother-in-law: "The Dauphin has a truly terrifying sense of gratitude. You'll be annihilated by it, my poor...
...best if you just do it," said a deadpan Prince Charles, 36, when confronted with pie-slinging Subject Kati Slater, 15, during a visit to a newly opened West Indian community center in Manchester, England. She did indeed do it. And Charles got it in the princely puss. Steve Starkie, who was standing near by, found it amusing-until Charles proved that he too can dish it out and left Steve foaming at the mouth. The Prince was, as one British newspaper put it, "His Royal Pieness...
None of the None of those things in themselves makes the Bruins puss or school prospects that Brown is a great place to go for competitive water polo, Forget about high-powered recruiting; the world is out on Brown polo so that the California high school stars know to consider Brown if they plan to playin college. By contrast, neither of Harvard's Co-Captains. Rich Guerra and Fasi, chose Harvard for its polo program...