Word: teething
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...willingness to tackle hot political topics other pop stars will not touch, Yusuf's fame is growing. Everywhere he goes in the Middle East, he is trailed by admirers who press him with pocket-sized Qurans, neatly folded notes and flowers. One Jordanian dentist even offered to clean his teeth for free. In Yusuf's home base of Cairo, he can no longer walk down the street unmolested. "The attachment people have to Sami is beyond celebrity," observes Sharif Hasan al-Banna, co-founder of the singer's Awakening Records music label. "People are always coming...
...that they scream. Snaring them is simple enough, says Nitin Desai, a conservationist at the Wildlife Protection Society of India-you set a few iron traps near a game-park watering hole, then wait for a tiger to take a wrong step. But when the trap's jagged metal teeth sink into its paw, the tiger howls-an alarm that can rouse a sleepy park ranger. So, a smart poacher will plunge a spear down the trapped animal's throat and tear out its vocal chords; then, at his leisure, he can poison or electrocute...
...Planet of the Apes, he says, "Don't take this the wrong way, but you're the first person who occurred to me to play this chimpanzee. I have this intuition you like changing what you look like." And he was right. Any chance I get, I'll wear teeth...
...Bellatrix Lestrange. She's a witch, a torturer. I go for the teeth fitting tomorrow...
...effectively male. She would never be anything but a wife serving fish to menfolk.Unfortunately, defying social convention has its price. I was not always invited to sit at the men’s table and share their vodka. Instead, most of the invitations I received were of the teeth-sucking variety—tooth-sucking being the Vietnamese equivalent of a wolf whistle. One particularly juicy chat-up line—“Can I have some watermelon?” referring of course to my unfinished plate of fruit—had me sniggering in the suitor?...