Word: texan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movies they made together, Cutthroat Island and The Long Kiss Goodnight, were such box-office poison, the couple say they intend to keep working together. Perhaps they'll even take a leaf out of JERRY HALL and MICK JAGGER's book of marital adventures. Barely seven months after the Texan temptress called on Princess Diana's divorce lawyer for a wee spot of legal advice, she's three months pregnant with the couple's fourth child. Jagger, 53, already has two grandchildren for his newest offspring to frolic with...
Molly Ivins once said, with respect to the elder George Bush, that no one is a true Texan who uses "summer" as a verb. If summer drives you away from where you live, your roots are indeed suspect. If it doesn't, though, and you live in Texas or any other state south of Maine, the only verb you use for three months of the year is buried in the contraction "innit," as in "Whee-ooo, innit...
...Suzanne Parchman, a resident of Fort Davis, yesterday, referring to the blockade against the Texan secessionists that has driven her out of her home...
Recent legislative changes in California and the Supreme Court's refusal to hear Californian and Texan appeals on the issue have placed increasing pressure on universities that use race, gender and ethnicity as part of their admission criteria...
...belief is famously privatized, and reality, as in some dumbed-down version of Emerson, is often regarded as a vanity plate to be custom-made. In the privileged town of Santa Barbara, California, where I sit, the hills are alive with the sound of mantra--from John-Roger, the Texan guru of Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, down the road; from the New Age preacher Marianne Williamson, closer to downtown; and even from the radio station on which I heard last week a minister speak rabidly of the Second Coming and Foxe's Book of Martyrs...