Word: standing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...scientist stands over me with a laser pointed at my face. His fiendish helper claps goggles onto my eyes. I tense. A searing sensation rips into my face. As the laser traces tiny spider veins across my cheek, zapping them into oblivion, I hear a faint pop, pop, pop. It begins to sting. Yeow, I swear silently. Is that burning flesh I smell? Hey, Doc? Owww. Yeowww! DOC! Dr. Harold Lancer, my Beverly Hills dermatologist, is laughing. He had warned me to take some Valium before the procedure (or risk scaring off his celebrity clients, no doubt...
...horror, her face blistered for three days afterward, her eyes were swollen shut, and pits formed in her skin. "When the laser started hurting, I asked what was happening, and they said they had 'turned it up.'" She says with a sigh, "All this because I couldn't stand wearing makeup." Lancer, the Beverly Hills dermatologist, is now removing the damage with microdermabrasion treatments; he says the Florida doctor failed to discover that Pighini, despite her blond hair, had Cherokee ancestry and was hence at risk...
...WHAT TO LOOK FOR: Expect the raunchy and entertaining-this opera will open with Jason singing about his inability to stand after a rough night of sex with Medea. You can look forward to authentic costumes and staging (Pierce is an expert on Baroque dance) hardly seen since in the last four centuries...
...Crimson can break through the Cornell defense, however, it should have a good chance of making the strike stand up for a victory...
...Even a class of 800 can be interactive," he said. "The professor doesn't have to just stand in front of the class and lecture. He can ask students to participate...