Word: skim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from a roadside crowd of 15 or 20: a mother-and-child duo, the mother skinny and snaggle-toothed, the baby perfect and in pink, 11 months old, little black shoes, shiny; they're headed home. We roll with them past horse-drawn wagons and slow, lanky cows. Egrets skim over the road, perpendicular. Air warm, sky overcast. The car screams...
...footage of Forbes eating caviar or McCain losing his cool.) The most telling moment in last Monday's debate grew out of Bush's earlier assertion that he was reading a biography of Dean Acheson. You might have thought he would then take the time to skim the dust jacket, at least. When CNN's Judy Woodruff asked what he had learned from Acheson, Bush neither placed the former Secretary of State in an Administration or with a policy, but blithely clutched at rote nostrums about "the incredible freedoms we understand in the great land called America...
Unlike museums and commercial galleries run by suave arts professionals, non-profit and alternative spaces are run by working artists. While museums often complain of being underfunded, their situation is luxurious compared to that of these organizations, which often skim the poverty line in way-out-of-the-way areas and depend on the unpaid labor of friends and artists. All of these spaces have tremendous ideals--some even have manifestos. They propose to help emerging artists and to bring art out of the museum and into the neighborhood. Some have more political agendas as well, such as the strong...
...Certainly, we must count our blessings. But for years we've been told day in and day out that the year 2000 teems with consequence of all sorts: numerical, technological, theological. So when we wake up and smell the skim latte and discover that nothing has really changed other than the start of a new tax year and that meanwhile we're stuck with 500 cans of Bumble Bee chunk white and enough batteries to power that annoying bunny from New York City to Juneau and back, there are bound to be existential consequences...
...SAMPLE MENU] BREAKFAST Half a toasted bagel with margarine, strawberries, skim milk...