Word: sicklied
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...long it took to learn Jordan-Joe-Donnie-Jon-Danny's names. "I stopped having any real idols post-NKOTB," says Maureen P. Murphy '01. "I had all the buttons and the sheets and the sweatshirts. I was pretty fanatic about them, but I got a little of sick of it after a while and all of a sudden, with the sweatshirt it was like 'Oh no, I can't wear it anymore...
...want to do is give Tom's dad the impression that you are a rude or inconsiderate guest (remember girls: boys listen to their fathers). Quickly divert attention from yourself by looking at Tom's mother and say in a disgusted but playfully amused tone, "Oh, Mrs. Exenberger, SICK!" Hopefully she will enjoy the joke at her expense just as much as the rest of the group...
When Boris Yeltsin was too sick to go on a state visit to Austria last week, Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov quickly stepped in--in every sense of the word. Yeltsin's advancemen sketched out Primakov's arrival and departure; Yeltsin's chief of protocol arranged the state visits; and Yeltsin's personal interpreter did the German-to-Russian translating. The only things missing, a Moscow newspaper wagged, were Mrs. Yeltsin and a battery of doctors. Not to mention the gaffes, stumbles and truncated schedules. The Russian establishment reacted with relief. "It's so good to see the country represented...
Which is why the popular conspiracy theory explaining the supermodel's disappearance is that designers and fashion editors, sick of their "I won't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day" attitude, made sure a small group of models would never again have the power of the Big Six. "By 1995 several of the girls had acted up so much, there was a building resentment against them," says Michael Gross, the author of Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women. "They'd sit in the back of limos and kick the driver in the neck with...
...second favorite tenor.) Hoelterhoff describes Domingo's unfailing energy, which allows him to conduct a matinee performance of one opera, star as lead role in another opera that evening, then hop on a plane to the other side of the country to fill in as a sub for a sick Othello...