Word: snips
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...Designed to CIA and MI5 security specifications - which require it to be sandwiched between two floors of guest rooms - this suite is truly fit for a President. The perks include a chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce, private elevator to the helicopter pad and a security post outside the room. A snip at $5,500 a night. DUBAI BURJ AL ARAB Big-spending guests at the world's tallest hotel get their own individual business center and private elevator service between the two floors of the suite. Floor-to-ceiling windows provide breathtaking views of the Gulf, and guests can pamper themselves...
...used to be my dad, snip, snip" and "I used to be a preoperative transsexual" are not lines usually found in grand opera. But they are sung in a delicate staccato fugue, by soaring sopranos and firm baritones, in the most talked-about new show in London. High culture meets the dumbed-down dregs of television in Jerry Springer--The Opera, which opens this week at London's Royal National Theater...
...than 30 men and women - soaring sopranos, firm baritones - are singing what sounds like a solemn Mass - Bach, perhaps. Except the words don't fit. They abruptly launch into an eyebrow-raising staccato fugue - melodically intertwining the phrases "Chick with a dick," "My Mom used to be my Dad, snip, snip," and "I used to be a lap-dancing pre-operative transsexual" - and it becomes evident that possibly this is not Bach. Instead, it is British theater's most talked-about new project: Jerry Springer - The Opera, which opens on April 29. Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cameron Mackintosh and the Royal...
Beauty Party’s haunting epilogue makes the Majesticons’ new strategy explicit: “Join forces with the aristocratic Trusticons to spread the virus of party and bullshit with superior sophistication.” This alliance will snip the last thread that connects them with hip-hop’s protest roots. Now, “instead of guns, they use lawyers and disco-balls...
...perspective accompanying the new studies, Dr. Thomas Imperiale, a gastroenterologist at Indiana University School of Medicine, takes pains to remind readers that aspirin alone is not a substitute for regular colonoscopy screenings, which enable doctors to locate and snip off growths before they become cancerous. It is also worth remembering that there are other ways to prevent colon cancer, including reducing the saturated fats in your diet and increasing your intake of folate-rich leafy green vegetables. You should probably also limit your consumption of red meat, processed meats and refined carbohydrates. And if you smoke, you should definitely quit...