Word: teethe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Economic meltdown in Asia, collapsing hedge funds in Connecticut, mass layoffs at the brokerage houses, a falling market for expensive cigars and Ferraris--yet there goes the Bellagio, sailing into the teeth of the gathering global gale, with 3,000 of the highest-priced rooms in Vegas and something like $300 million worth of works of art nailed to its mast. All bought, over a little more than two years, by Stephen A. Wynn, 56, who had never collected anything except casino real estate and golf courses before--and who is, moreover, gradually losing his sight to retinitis pigmentosa...
GOOD NEWS FOR TEETH...
...dollars and riding high on a couple of hot-button issues -- the murder of Matthew Shepard and the marathon Mideast peace talks in Maryland. The former is to the '98 election what black church burnings were in 1996 -- the kind of hate crime that Clinton can really get his teeth into; a battle he doesn't have to fudge. The latter, even his opponents agree, has given the President some much-needed stature. Indeed, they're both such winners that Clinton is doing his best to link them: "If you were heartbroken when that young man was killed...
TMBG definitely had the audience in the palms of their hand. The roadie carrying a glockenspiel garnered a huge response as he shimmied onstage so Dan the drummer could play a note every minute or so in "Shoehorn with Teeth." The marionette head replicas of the two Johns which "sang" "Exquisite Dead Guy" to start off the encore were perfect agents of distraction for the horribly dissonant harmonies (if you will) that are the framework of that song...
...Come on, it's okay, we're tough," I remind her, gritting my teeth and sliding the apparatus over my head...