Word: snappingly
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...like a girl - 2-cm-long nails brightly buffed and filed to an elegant curve. Ejiofor has just come from rehearsals for his latest project, The Kinky Boot Factory, a comedy in which he plays Lola, a sassy transvestite cabaret star. Press-on nails, his makeup team tell him, snap too easily, so Ejiofor's grown his own, acquiring some useful expertise in applying cosmetics in the process. "I've learned that wet nail polish gets everywhere," he says. "And you should always do your eye makeup first." This stage-trained son of Nigerian refugees first turned heads...
Talk radio and local TV interview requests were among the most common communiques he received during the media frenzy. Bigger fish wanted to snap up Corker’s story as well: movie producers including the National Lampoon contacted him, and one company even suggested creating a reality television show centering around the search for Corker’s replacement. Though the College will name its new campus life fellow later this semester, the search will not be televised...
...Harvard professor with a passion for studying everyday phenomena, including how worms wriggle, flags flap, and skin shrivels, has co-authored a report research explaining how the Venus flytrap is able to snap shut almost instantaneously...
...guided the Eagles to their first Super Bowl appearance in 24 years. In 1999, upset that the Eagles chose him over Heisman-trophy running back Ricky Williams as the No. 2 pick in the NFL draft, Philadelphia's raucous fans booed McNabb before he took a single practice snap (Williams has since retired from football to travel, study holistic medicine and, by his own account, smoke weed). Rush Limbaugh thrust an unwitting McNabb into a firestorm in 2003 with his idiotic statement about black quarterbacks being overrated. Among veteran quarterbacks, McNabb has the highest winning percentage. But before this year...
Those camera-equipped cell phones may be the latest must-have tech product, with more than 31 million sold in North America last year alone. But the ability of users to snap pictures on the sly almost anywhere they go--and even put the images on the Internet--has prompted a growing number of places to institute a ban on the devices...