Word: skins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ackerly eventually distilled her knowledge of "team cleaning" into a 300-page manual of dos and don'ts. The book serves as the basis for training new Mini Maid personnel. Among its teachings: pick up statuary in the middle, rather than at the top and bottom, and clean animal-skin rugs with a whisk broom rather than a vacuum cleaner. Sums up Ackerly: "The homeowner does not have to feed us, pick us up, give directions. We don't give a song and dance about our car breaking down as a reason for not showing up. We are successful because...
...carpet, battered and bruised by forces beyond its comprehension, awaited the next impact of our mini-wrecking ball. Tiny punctures in its rayon skin were mute testimonials to the kinetic fusion of a warped student wielding two pounds of round, steel government surplus...
...point here is not to try to second guess the director or screenwriter by guessing who set Viveca up. Lumet just wants you to sit back and absorb the atmosphere. Let the dirt of L.A. sink into your skin and relish the experience of seeing Jane Fonda look worse than you for once...
...been formed as a result of a huge explosion within a nearby galaxy. Expanding shock waves from this blast would have compressed surrounding gases, clumping molecules together and setting off the process by which stars form. But that process should produce bubbles -- that is, voids surrounded by a spherical "skin" of stars. These arcs are virtually two-dimensional strands of stars. Besides, astronomers have not detected enough gas in the area to have formed structures as large as the arcs...
...analyzed their hair. "I was a walking penny," says Amy Greene, 54, a makeup consultant at the chic Henri Bendel store. Garcia found that her hair had a high copper content; he decreed she must stop drinking her usual 16 cups of tea a day. Now, Greene says, "my skin glows. If a dragon came in, I'd slay...