Word: teethe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turned out that their son John, a seventh-grader, was putting together a skit with a group of other kids. Their short play was loosely based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, except that it was set inside a gigantic mouth, and the main characters were teeth. The theme involved not a tumultuous relationship but the invention of the electric toothbrush. Yet part of the dialogue was lifted verbatim from the Shakespearean original...
...school yearbook, but be careful. If you think it would be a cute conversation piece, then go ahead. But be aware that when your new Harvard friends page through it, they will see that dorky picture of you in the cafeteria with a wad of spinach stuck between your teeth. Then you'll be sorry...
...market?s interest rates and took some steam out of stocks without the central bank?s actually having to do anything. Now, there are only two reasons for the Fed to raise rates at its June 29 meeting ?- to loosen up labor markets or simply to bare its teeth ?- and neither seems compelling enough for Alan & the Gang to act before the next meeting, in August. The corral is open again. Do the bulls remember...
...almost quaint now. Whether Hugh Hefner was a pioneer of the sexual revolution or just piggybacked on it is impossible to know, but in the age of AIDS and poverty caused by out-of-wedlock births, his hedonism-without-tears philosophy makes him look like Austin Powers with better teeth. Timothy Leary preached the liberating power of psychedelic drugs, but aside from Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, the legacy of LSD seems to be a lot of boring baby-boomer anecdotes and some black-light posters in the attic. But who knows: Is Leary's time past...
...there to face down without flinching the bullet shots of the league's best shooters. After Plante, hockey's goalies--virtually all of them masked by 1970--would display a new boldness, a more aggressive posture, a more intimate role in the currents of the game. And more teeth...