Word: spit
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Raising children forces adults into a life marked by spit-up stains, poopy diapers, homework assignments, soccer games, ballet recitals, hugs and kisses, circles under the eyes and, for those of us who work, bucketloads of guilt. Most of us eventually come to terms with the physical trials of parenting, such as the reality that from time to time during our tour of duty, we will be vomited on. We become feeding, clothing and carpooling experts. But we never quite know what to do with the guilt...
...problem, whether you're managing astronomical sums of other people's money or just deciding what to pack for London. It might seem another problem altogether to spend your time reconstructing that fateful period 3.5 billion years ago, when protein molecules dancing through the earth's primordial foam collectively spit forth the first proto-bacteria, life's earliest ancestors. You know the rest...
...Insanely Jealous” starts with an urgent but subdued bass throb, agitated hi-hat and the slender and raw tremolo of a violin. It gradually works into a deliberately guided frenzy of dipping and weaving bass and guitar squall—and, of course, the spit and muttered skewering of love: “But all I hear when they embrace is just the kiss of skulls...
...very romantic-French-novel Week 10 episode that proved the reports - here and elsewhere - of the decline of "Survivor 2" were greatly exaggerated, the Ogakor alliance abandoned its sensible lockstep and abruptly swallowed Jerri in a delightfully shocking Tribal Council. Then it spit her out. It was just the icing on what, undoubtedly, was this "Survivor's finest hour...
...Fifth Generation made pretty films set in the rural past; the Sixth Generation makes gritty films set in the urban present. Emperors and concubines have been replaced by the grungy malcontents of Zhang Yuan's Beijing Bastards (1993), the Sixth Generation's first major film; its anomic punksters spit out obscenities in sync sound and groove to hard rock. A night at the Peking Opera gives way to an all-nighter in the Beijing mosh...