Word: showering
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...said to him, 'You're not one of those tri-bathletes, are you, Mr. President? You know - steam, sauna, shower?'" - Recalling a 2005 conversation with George Bush in which each took jabs at the other's athleticism (Fortune...
...expanding a runway to accommodate Air Force One in case Obama decides to pay a state visit to his ancestral home. As much as that may reflect the depth of Kenyan hopes, the item was a joke meant to poke fun at the expectation by some that Obama will shower Kenya with favors should he win the election. - By Nicholas Wadhams/Nairobi...
...most museums assumed that camera art could be made only within the palette you might find in a cinder block. And then there were Eggleston's pictures of places where no one had ever bothered to point a camera before, like the green tiled interior of an empty shower stall or the strangely mesmerizing blackness of an open kitchen oven. In 1961 photographer Robert Frank said, "You can photograph anything now." But it took Eggleston to prove...
...Other right-leaning voters acknowledge what they see as Clark's Thatcheresque toughness and command of detail. But for many, these traits don't compensate for a government they see as increasingly paternalistic. Something like public outrage erupted in early October over a draft plan requiring that low-pressure shower heads be installed in new homes over a specified size, a trifle in itself but part of a wider narrative broadcast by anti-Clark forces that New Zealand has become a nanny state. It's a perception strongest in rural areas, where many farmers feel suffocated by bureaucracy. Sometimes, their...
...timeworn plot for a story with a female protagonist (e.g. “Kill Bill”). Similarly, Britney and her music videos are like a comfortable old sock. They feature familiar imagery: the car chase? Any Mitsubishi ad. A man’s chest glistening in a shower? Gillette. Hotel room? Ikea. But that’s why we keep on lovin’ Brit. We can buy or sell her sexuality as a memory that accompanies any shiny car or anime film or spy unitard, and feel warm and fuzzy inside for doing it. From Brit...