Word: toothful
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Call me old-fashioned, but I don't consider one thousand packets of Kool-Aid sprinkled all over the Quad as ART. What I consider it, and I'm certainly not alone, is an eyesore that smells like a five-year-old sweet-tooth's fantasy. The only difference between spreading artificial flavoring over the snow and spray painting it is that neighborhood dogs don't love to lick up spray paint...
...past history does not hold out much hope that the club will issue a sincere apology and reinstate Harper willingly. Instead, they will likely fight tooth and nail, sending the team into 1986 as close knit as usual, ready to challenge for the title...
...most solid directors. Shepard's collaboration with Wim Wenders on Paris, Texas, and now his work with Altman, hints at a possible Shepard film canon. Coppola doing Buried Child? Kurosawa's A Lie of the Mind? Kubrick's Curse of the Starving Class? A Lucasfilm version of The Tooth of Crime? The mind reels...
This is a book with bite. Dentistry: an Illustrated History by Malvin E. Ring, D.D.S. (Abrams; 320 pages; $75) ranges through time and twinges from the Maya Indians, who used tooth implants almost 1,400 years ago, to the latest microelectric techniques. What might have been a waiting-room time killer becomes instead a lively parade of names and incidents: Muhammad using an early version of the toothbrush; Henry VIII granting a charter for dental surgery to barbers; Paul Revere providing dental fillings before proceeding to larger items of silverware; Charles Lindbergh posing with his grandfather, the inventor...
...happy ending, I thought. But just as my friend resolved "the baldness issue," I began to find strands of hair deposited on my pillow each morning. "The tooth fairy gone amok?" I puzzled. But no. There was no such thing as the tooth fairy. My parents had always performed her function, and they had never left hair...