Word: shavings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Edgehill Newport hospital, Four Winds hospital and the emergency room of the Brigham and Women's Hospital, to which she was rushed after ingesting ^ rubbing alcohol. By the time the book was nearly finished, so was Kitty; home for Christmas in 1989, she was drinking nail polish remover, after-shave, hair spray, anything she could get her hands...
...people I'm willing to be confrontational with because they're the people I need to educate the most," Ting says. "I need to show them that feminists do care about what they wear, that feminists don't automatically hate all men and that feminists do shave their legs...
TURNING STICKS INTO CARROTS. Senator Bob Dole's proposal to shave Israel's $3 billion in foreign aid has met with heavy resistance. Now some in the Bush Administration are considering using a carrot: encouraging Israel to make peace with the Palestinians by increasing aid. They recall the Camp David accords, in which U.S. aid served as a sort of signing bonus. The rationale then was to compensate Israel for the security costs caused by surrender of the Sinai. The same justification is being considered again: if Israel trades land for peace, the U.S. should defray any expenses associated with...
...1920s, when Hemingway used to sit and write stories in the Closerie des Lilas, which had been a lilac-shaded country tavern during the 17th century. Hemingway complained bitterly when the management tried to attract a younger clientele by tarting up the bar and ordering all the waiters to shave off their mustaches. The Closerie is once again cozily moribund, and Hemingway, like the friendly red lampshades, has become part of the decor: a brass plate on the bar marks his presence, and his face ornaments the menu, which includes a rumsteak au poivre Hemingway...
Humor is often in short supply in books by writers who assert they are funny. This is not second grade, and the territory Wasserstein covers has been strip-mined by those who preceded her -- Nora Ephron, Ellen Goodman and Anna Quindlen. A piece about the split between women who shave their legs and those who don't would have to come up with some dazzling insights to merit another look. Ditto painted nails, being fat or single...