Word: teeth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...haired woman (though the hair color varies according to whim) who is, if not gaunt, at any rate acceptably trim at 5 ft. 2 in. and 127 Ibs. Is it a surprise that her daughter Betsy, 30, and her sons Andrew, 28, and Matthew, 25, have lost their baby teeth? And that her husband is not a football-stupefied turnip but rather an articulate, quick-minded fellow? Bill Bombeck retired in 1978 after a successful career as a school administrator, and now manages their income of $500,000 to $1 million a year. He is more likely to be found...
...Stasio or Omar Galliani, never use such "warm" sources. As shown by Mariani's Ercole che Riposa, they prefer the cold touch of marble and the frigid contortions of mannerism. Their dream of beauty is a simpering Apollo or a Big Daddy Hercules surrounded by Ganymedes with pearlescent teeth, all in a Roman campagna done from slides-the love among the ruins that dares not speak its name...
...vivid details, then going for broke. He was a prodigious sufferer. He managed to embrace all the guilt there was to religion, all the shame there was in sex. He dressed in his own kind of sackcloth-sneakers, work pants, sweat-stained shirt. He allowed his teeth to rot. When anger and frustration built up in him, he would smash his fist into the nearest wall or bloodily shatter the glass he was holding. "Nearly all the time," he wrote after one bender, "I am incompetent for work, or for thinking of work, or of anything except crawling around...
WITH A SHRILL blast on the whistle between his teeth the bicyclist announces his apporoach. He whizzes between a Chevy parked at the curb and a bread truck pulled up at the red light and heads into the intersection. There is an oncoming car in the cross street but it is still half a block away, and with a couple of quick pumps on the pedals, the bicyclist is clear...
...battered wife was no easy task. "Her features are absolutely perfect," observes Makeup Artist Fred Blau. "It's like putting your foot through a Rembrandt." To make the star considerably less perfect, Blau darkened her eyes, created bruises on her cheeks, neck and arms, and added false, crooked teeth "to take away from her Pepsodent smile." The temporarily fallen angel had no regrets, however. Says Fawcett: "It would be depressing to go through life with the same hairdo...