Word: teething
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...been an old man. Even in the '60s, as the gunslinger in Sergio Leone westerns, Eastwood had the squinty eyes, sour mouth and weary walk of a soldier who had been in too many wars. The six-day stubble hid countless psychic scars; the cigar butt stuck between his teeth suggested a world gone up in smoke; the poncho he wore could have been a shroud. As Dirty Harry and a passel of creepy cowboys, Eastwood carried himself with the slow, wily grace of the living dead. Idealism had been blasted out of him -- only a grim irony stirred inside...
...when you start making grand changes in a place, you run the risk of creating a Jurassic Park. Many Angelenos already have sharp teeth. Now, we've given the dinosaurs hockey sticks...
When you start making grand changes in a place, you run the risk of creating a Jurassic Park. Many Angelenos already have sharp teeth. Now we've given the dinosaurs hockey sticks...
...they were cast into the street during the social upheaval that followed the collapse of communism. The ex-collective farmworker dresses them up in girls' clothes and sells their favors, given eagerly, he maintains, for as little as $20 a day. "I am helping them," he insists, flashing gold teeth set into a pockmarked face. "This type of work is profitable. The boys are grateful...
...most violent: rapes, threats with guns and beatings." Equally notorious in Berlin and Prague: the so-called Chechen Boys, North Caucasians who reportedly deal in weapons, counterfeit money, drugs and women. Francine Meert, head of Le Nid, a Brussels aid group, says, "Many of the girls have broken teeth. They say they fell downstairs. But there are so many of them that either this business has the worst-maintained stairs in the world or these girls are being punched." In a brothel in Bautzen, Germany, last year, women were beaten with bats and administered electric shocks. In Prague girls...