Word: shavings
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...already had part of the answer. Patient study had revealed that some orangutans were avid tool users, for example employing short sticks to shave stinging hairs from the fat-loaded fruit of the neesia tree. This was a skill that seemed taught by one generation to the next, not inherited. In other words, the orangutans had culture, previously the single greatest distinguishing mark of humanity...
...problems getting to a solution, both sides think after years of failure, a deal might be possible. Bush has threatened to veto the more liberal forms of legislation, but those who are now at the table with him know that's just an opening bid. Bush is willing to shave away the details to get a result. And this is a result that happens to be wildly popular, with as many as 79% of Republican voters telling pollsters they support a patient's bill of rights. The HMO lobby disputes that figure but most Republicans see a bigger reality...
When I was an obnoxious adolescent, I used to deride Father's Day - and Mother's Day, too - as a Hallmark holiday, a phony anniversary designed to sell greeting cards and bottles of cheap after-shave...
Schneider is now hopeful about Pearl Harbor's prospects abroad (it will be released in Japanese theaters July 14 with minor changes in dialogue but with the same title); but before the studio would agree to make the movie, Bay and Bruckheimer had to shave the cost. They gave up their own up-front fees, persuaded cast members like Affleck to take pay cuts and canceled traditional studio-movie goodies like a wrap party and jackets for the crew. "We joked that this was the most expensive independent movie ever made," says Bay, who threatened to quit several times over...
...ceremony of the patriarchy, if you like. Gillette Blue Blades sponsored other ceremonies: prizefights on black-and-white television, the boxing-ring bell orchestrated into the jingle... "To LOOK sharp DING/ ev'ry time you shave!" I cherish a hazy recollection, the haze being snow on the television set, perhaps, and the bluish cigarette smoke layered above the ring - of Sugar Ray Robinson throwing the most beautiful punch ever thrown, a straight jab, pure lightning that sent his man into another dimension, as if used boxers and used blades alike would spin in black space forever...