Word: shavings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sheer joy Jobs derives from talking, mostly off the record, about his family: how his youngest daughter just started waving him off to work; how he won't let his kids watch TV, lest it stifle their creativity; how, over and over, his wife Laurene makes him shave off his salt-and-pepper beard...
...Even in this feminist era, female mustaches and chin hair are not openly discussed or even much written about. "A lot of people feel psychologically scarred by heavy hair," says Dr. Edward Tobinick, director of UCLA's Institute of Laser Medicine. "One woman got up at 2 a.m. to shave before her husband...
...think of women as people, instead of animalistic sexual toys. Body hair is a fortress between me and the person I love, a way of preventing me from getting to know and respect her as a person. It's pathetic what I'll say to get a woman to shave...
...exchanging indulgences for cold cash. Centuries later, a more subtle and democratic set of rules emerged, according to TIME religion correspondent David Van Biema. "An indulgence is a much more complicated thing than it used to be," says Van Biema. "Now, instead of just handing over some cash to shave years off your time in purgatory, you enter into a healing process with God after confessing to a sin." So tossing those cigarettes now qualifies as a spiritual act? Van Biema acknowledges that the Vatican anti-smoking edict may "elicit a few giggles," but he believes it could...
...this evening I am making risotto, which my wife loves and says is superior to any found in restaurants, the Van Gogh Sunflowers of risotto. This is the life of a man who knows grandeur. I simmer the chopped onions and fennel in a pool of butter and shave Parmesan into a bowl while my clients sit on the front steps, enjoying the last of summer in St. Paul, watching people stroll past, waiting...