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...course. Well, a cog in the wheel. Like a tooth, you know, on the outside of the wheel. A tooth which was once necessary for it to turn the next wheel of the machine. We once had such a thing as a cogwheel. Now they run much more smoothly, after we removed the cogs, less friction, that sort of thing, and you don't have to concern yourself with wayward cogs anymore, or fitting them to the proper size--oh, what effort that did take. Spare yourself...
...chicken at every corner, as crowds of business executives edge out into traffic and frenzied cabbies bear down on them, determined not to miss the light. Coming from a place where 30-minute, five-mile drives are common-place, I'm continually surprised to see how people will fight tooth and nail over a few inches of street, or run like maniacs to make the 5:58 train instead of the 6:05. When you have so many people in such a small space, your sense of proportion can get warped...
...tooth grinding that got me to God. I didn't know I was on a spiritual path at the time. I couldn't face the prospect of wearing a night guard to protect my teeth from stress, and the alternative I stumbled onto was meditation, which I'd read about in a Deepak Chopra book. If it could help people facing terrible things like cancer, why not my molars...
...comfy seats in 1962 and established him as the premier American playwright of the post-Arthur Miller generation. Shepard (though his work has largely been ignored by Broadway until now) was the most acclaimed and charismatic playwright to emerge off-Broadway in the 1960s and '70s (The Tooth of Crime, Curse of the Starving Class). Now both authors are being celebrated with Broadway revivals of Pulitzer-prizewinning works from their most fertile periods. The two plays, which picked up 12 Tony nominations between them last week, remind us that old-fashioned stage virtues--originality of voice, depth of feeling, richness...
What I mean is that a taller building was built in another city. That city is Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, not the first place that comes to mind when the conversation turns to the subject of imposing skylines. Chicago fought tooth and nail to avoid being dropped to the second slot. Apparently, its boosters do not look forward to driving an out-of-town visitor past the Sears Tower and saying, "To find a building taller than that, my friend, you'd have to go to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...