Word: stiffs
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There are two great things about reviewing a romance novel. One is that you don't have to be worried about giving away the ending. Even though Susannah Ballister is stubborn and not conventionally pretty and the Earl of Renminster is stiff and pompous, I will tell you right now: they hook up. Here's the other great thing about reviewing romance novels: people actually read them...
...considered the speed dating World Cup. Time dispatched two intrepid correspondents to the desiring line. Their reports: HIS SIDE: My first date - let's call her "Brownie" - spends our entire 180-second relationship reminiscing about her failed camp fire girl youth. The 26-year-old speaks plaintively about the stiff breeze long ago that blew away her one shot as the camp-fire lighter. She doesn't light my fire, either. Getting nowhere (fast, of course), I do what every self-disrespecting male would do. I lie. I call myself a rich lawyer and sit down with "Sugarmuffin," the prettiest...
...North America is made of silicone, like many new spatulas. Heat-and flame-resistant up to 500°F, the stain-proof glove allows you to pluck hard-boiled eggs and potatoes out of boiling water and grab chicken wings that fall through the barbecue grill. We found the stiff material a little awkward, however, for pulling pans from the oven...
...Beware the Perilous Story Line As much as anything, what killed Gore in 2000 was the rap that he was a stiff who couldn't stop telling whoppers. Perceptions are jelling that Edwards is callow, Kerry aloof and patrician, Gephardt yesterday's news. Dean? Well, he's from tiny Vermont...
...from ex--West Wing producer Lawrence O'Donnell, stars Josh Brolin as a political naif appointed to fill a vacant Senate seat. Populated with more straw men than an Iowa cornfield--sleazy lobbyists, nosy reporters, cynical legislators--Sterling plays safely down the political middle, making its stiff title character an independent. Like a timid primary hopeful, it has few convictions beyond pandering to viewers' feelings of superiority to all those bad people in Washington...