Word: straighten
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Former heavyweight champ Joe Frazier says Tyson calls him and claims he wants to straighten out his life. "But then he goes and gets the crazies again. [If I were Tyson] I would kiss the ground to get my license back...
...know we're not normal," Jerry Yang says with a boyish grin, making a halfhearted effort to straighten up his cubicle for his visitor. It's not much of an office by mogul standards: just a nondescript desk, a couple of cheap plastic milk crates bulging with papers, an old futon. Magazines are piled in a corner, and a window offers a distinctly declasse view of the parking...
...virtuous air--something that doesn't quite fit on the rest of Byers' literary turf. Were he intending to give a lesson in ethics by preaching them, these stories could not seem less undeserving of an exemplary attitude that they seem to take. Happy endings don't have to straighten their moral codes to be "good." In fact, normal as they seem, the characters in Byers' book are drawn out of their amorality with the help of his skillful word-painting, thus saving them from an eternal literary damnation...
...street, I straighten my back, hoping to disguise imperfections that this outfit does nothing to hide. Slut clothes are bad for the nerves, but good for posture. I click-clack my way into the UC office to pick up posters. Good lord, the Vice President and Campus Life Committee Chair are schmoozing on the couch--will they ever think of me the same way again? I hide behind some boxes and mutter a hello. These shoes are killing...
...third-floor bedrooms, Lutjenshimself pauses to straighten a framed print on thewall. He adjusts it three times before moving...