Word: shade
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...like the N.R.A. and intelligence--it's an oxymoron (and boy, are they morons)." The resulting volume of mail suggests there are a lot of people who subscribe to both a strict interpretation of the Second Amendment and a publication that seeks to arm them with the appropriate shade of lipstick. Among the letters were several death threats...
...your way in, you may pass old, tired Jews leaning for support and planting kisses on the Western Wall as if they were caressing their grandchildren. Moments later, you skirt by a Muslim scholar, a white turban wrapped around his scarlet fez. He is bent double in the shade of a pine, scrubbing his feet and hands as he prepares to pray in al-Aqsa Mosque. The air is alive with the sacred mumblings of Hebrew and Arabic. It smells like dust and cumin and cardamom. And the gold of the Dome's roof--vibrant 1,300 years after...
...slippers. They would have gone to a staring contest if it had been a medal event. Live theater performances, including Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida at the Opera House, came to a halt while a big screen showed a particularly anticipated race. The denigrating humor was merely a contrasting shade in a riot of eagerness and team spirit...
...increasingly red (and egg-spattered) face of the IOC just blushed one shade deeper. After finally achieving some distance from charges of corruption and pocket-lining, the beleaguered International Olympics Committee is on the block again. It seems that after examining the results of a two-year federally funded study surveying doping at the Games, the White House office of drug policy has written a scathing rebuke of the IOC, blaming the committee's haphazard screening methods for the rising incidence of athletic drug abuse. The 107-page reprimand was released Friday...
...much harder than the ascent, but you don't know that yet. The novice hiker is leg weary as you near the cottonwood trees of the first oasis, 3,000 ft. below the rim. It's much hotter here than at the trailhead, and you flop down in the shade and briefly commune with Kit Carson and Charles Lindbergh and Sir Edmund Hillary and wonder, "Can I make it back up?" The answer is yes. Absolutely...