Word: shavings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jerry doesn't know what he's talking about," said Harvard first-year and sideburn-wearer Mike E. Farbierz. "The only real reason I wear sideburns is because I'm too lazy to shave. The only maintenance problem is when one comes out shorter that the other...
...roughly a nickel for a kilowatt. Machines now operating in California can produce energy at 7 cents per kW. In areas of consistent high winds, the next generation, currently being deployed, will bring that cost down to 5 cents by 1995, and more advanced designs are likely to shave off another penny by the year 2000. While many locales do not have enough wind to use the technology, enhancements already in the works will expand by a factor of 20 the area of land that can generate wind power profitably, according to experts at the National Renewable Energy...
...Hook, a very high-stakes, special-effects-laden megapicture. For Williams, who is in nearly every scene, making the movie was a grueling six months on the set. He was obliged to shave his arms and upper body every other day. And the acting wasn't easy, either: in a 40-year-old man, Mary Martin feyness -- "Come on, Lost Boys!" -- could be awful. Williams says Bob Hoskins, who plays Hook's first mate, Smee, gave him a key piece of advice: make Pan ever so slightly insane...
...looking to take back the Ivy title," Wriede said. "Princeton has won it the last two years, but we will not shave for them. We think we can make a run for it on two days rest...
Some jaunty and possibly well-practiced barbs are aimed at women, mostly categorized by Amis as shrews or lays. Noting that many male writers find inspiration while showering or shaving, he adds, "One reason for the inferiority of women novelists to men, if indeed they are inferior, may well be that comparatively few of them shave with any regularity...