Word: teething
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Intervale Posse, for years one of the most vicious gangs in the city. Despite repeated warnings from state and federal authorities, Intervale continued to terrorize its Dorchester neighborhood. Cease-Fire struck at dawn last August, arresting 24 gang members; 15 were brought down with federal warrants. "They are the teeth of the whole thing," notes David Singletary, an officer with the Youth Violence Task Force, as he cruises Dorchester one night with his partner, Kenny Israel, talking to street kids. "Once you say 'federal time,' it's a different ball game. You can end up doing your time in Leavenworth...
...clothes. Certainly it doesn't get much odder than at the house of 28-year-old Alexander McQueen, Givenchy. His show, held at a Parisian medical school festooned with swaths of red velvet and caged ravens, had been plagued by rumors that it would feature real human bones and teeth. Not so. The handlike skeletons under the lace mantilla were made of resin. The swan around SHALOM HARLOW'S neck, right, was as faux as the eyelashes, eyebrows and pupils adorning CHRYSTELE, left. "There are two or three pieces I'd love to have," said Demi Moore after the show...
...goddesses, this star of the Lilith Fair. After all, it was a Nabokov character who said that while he was capable of loving Eve, "it was Lilith he longed for." Jewel's is a fey, insidious charm, equal parts worldly and naive, where flaws--the crooked nose and crooked teeth she is so proud of--only betray an uncommon beauty. Then there is the improbable match of slender youth and that voice--an astonishingly versatile instrument ranging from soul-shattering yodels to the most eloquent of whispers to arch Cole Porter-ish recitative...
...decided that a patch of grass at the back of the fairgrounds was perfect for building two new practice baseball diamonds. Perfect, at least, until Bill Moyer, Hutchinson's parks superintendent, spotted about 75 squirrelly brown mammals popping in and out of burrows and mowing the lawn with their teeth...
...have no way of distinguishing on our grade sheet between truly exceptional and just a skin-of-your-teeth A," says James E. Davis, head tutor of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology...