Word: talled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left, the phone rang. It was the family's housekeeper, wanting to know why I was having a wild party. She said that she had just met a friend of mine, who said he was coming over. I frantically asked her who he was and she said he was tall, thin, and bearded. So I hung up, and called the police again--grabbing a knife out of the kitchen...
...savvy and partly an attempt to preserve intact the fabric of his fantasy life. Inevitably, there are breaches. "You know, everybody thinks you're gay," Vocal Coach Seth Riggs told him one day during a break in a vocal lesson. "I know," Jackson laughed. "The other day a big, tall, blond, nice-looking fellow came up to me and said, 'Gee, Michael, I think you're wonderful. I sure would like to go to bed with you.' I looked at him and said, 'When's the last time you read the Bible? You know you really should read it because...
Jackson stands up when we enter the room. He is wearing black pants, a black short-sleeved shirt, a maroon tie decorated with the official Olympic seal. He is not quite 6 ft. tall, with thin legs and a slight paunch. On one wrist is a gold watch, on the other a gold chain bracelet with colored stones. He wears a gold-and-diamond ring on the fourth finger of his left hand. His hair falls over his ears, the thin corkscrew curls shiny. His eyes are green, his mustache a pencil line over his lip. His nose looks...
...friend is wearing a plain white shirt and black pants. The room is very dark. There seem to be outlines of figures against the far wall. Above the TV are shelves, and on the top one I can see what looks like dolls or mannequins about two feet tall...
...dealing with Indians, however, this Administration remains true to its own peculiar vision of justice. It is using "self-determination" as a euphemism for self-sacrifice, shutting off tribal assistance while lecturing tribes on the virtues of standing tall. Last years Indian assistance funds were cut by more than-one-third, including a 44 percent reduction in job programs. Naturally, unemployment on the reservations jumped from 30 percent to over 50 percent. Reaganomics, it appears, means subsidy for the affluent and self-determination for the poor. We have invented an entirely new breed of fortunate victims: the starving free...