Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...load onto your average American, so when Baldwin steps into the Holyoke Mall, he intends to keep it simple and nonpartisan (which the Creative Coalition purports to be). He will simply ask the common folk if they want to clean up the political system and get rid of all that tainted money. It becomes immediately clear, however, that Baldwin is going to have a communications problem. A scream rips the air, and a saleswoman from the Foot Locker, dressed like a black-and-white-striped referee, charges Baldwin and throws an arm around him. "Can I have your autograph...
...weak, rapidly mutating virus that didn't cause much trouble but ensured that the creature's immune system had to keep firing up every now and again to guard against nastier problems. The common cold is a strange disorder and has so far defeated all efforts to get rid of it. Could it be a form of protection devised by God or nature? And if the common cold is a defense mechanism, would it be wise to get rid of it? ROBERT W.K. GARDINER Kirbymoorside, England...
...Bean having a job and the concomitant responsibilities--things he never had to deal with before. He is a ne'er-do-well employee of London's National Art Gallery whose job security is insured by having endeared himself to the Chair of the Board. In order to get rid of Bean, the other board members vote to send him to America, passing him off as the art expert who will accompany the masterpiece "Whistler's Mother" to a museum in Los Angeles which has just purchased it. The curator and art historian of the museum (Peter MacNicol) inexplicably offers...
...doesn't cooperate in an illegal transaction he will be turned into "piggy-chops." Obsessed with this image of flayed pig, Timothy steals money from his invalid aunt and invades his uncle-in-law's home. Soon, as a result of the desire of an unsympathetic cousin to be rid of him, Timothy finds himself speeding down the highway on a motorcycle under the influence of a powerful hallucinogenic drug...
...said that people who disapprove of calling in a doctor to get rid of pain "should not interfere in the affairs of those who hold other religious, or non-religious, views, and whose suffering is so intense that the grave has more appeal than a few more days, weeks or months of continual agony...