Word: wet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...JENNY MCCARTHY--the words trashy, vacuous and semitalented come swiftly to mind--one certainly can't accuse her of taking herself too seriously or being coy. In her new book, Jen-X (for which she was reportedly paid more than $1 million), McCarthy confesses with unstarlike candor that she wet her bed until she was seven, spread a rumor that a girl at her school was a lesbian and peed in a guy's bed after a drunken date. Also that her breasts are fake and she dropped out of college after a petty theft. And, scariest of all, that...
...that these departures are supposed to orient Turnbull's life and ever-present death in the greater span of history--to connect his existence with others' in some all-encompassing cyclic understanding. In comparison with the use of imagination in such classic Updike as The Centaur, however, these elderly wet dreams seem positively puerile...
After the first fluffy snowfall wears out its welcome and turns into filthy brown slush piled on the side of street corners, get ready to contend with frozen hands, chapped lips, wet feet, biting winds, and days with only a couple of seconds of sunlight...
...Stone's brain. It's a jungle in there, luscious, overgrown, drenched in sensuality and high seriosity, alive with death. The Vietnam of his mind is "waisthigh in vegetation," as Stone writes in his novel A Child's Night Dream (St. Martin's Press; 236 pages; $21.95). "Green with wet...
When it does, it will find a lot to study. While satellites usually travel horizontally around a planet's equator, Surveyor orbits vertically, flying over both Martian poles. If there is organic chemistry on Mars, it will probably be in a wet, carbon-rich region, and the ice caps--made largely of water and carbon dioxide--fill that bill nicely...