Word: buttoning
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Occasionally he walked the stage hunched like a gunfighter, arms poised to pull his pistols. To punctuate a point, he'd sometimes squat and bow his arms as if he were trying to lift a water cooler. Or he'd poke the air like a man torturing an elevator button. And, boy, could he paint a wicked rhetorical picture. A particular favorite popped up at an energy-policy speech in Saginaw, Mich. Like most of his speeches important enough for a TelePrompTer, his emphasis track was unhooked from the actual text. Suddenly, a throwaway line got too much fancy sauce...
...tall, wore snakeskin pants, a faux-velvet, high-necked, sleeveless shirt and a tan leather half jacket. Serena, at 5 ft. 10 in., modeled a midriff-baring shirt under a denim jacket and low-riding jeans folded down over her stomach to reveal the brand-new belly-button ring that her father just freaked out about when he read this sentence...
Israeli officials acknowledge that they don't yet know exactly how to separate. Barak has distributed The Disengagement Imperative, a recent book by Israeli political scientist Dan Schueftan, to each of his Cabinet ministers. Schueftan calls for absolute separation, even in hot-button spots like Jerusalem. "We need to partition Jerusalem, not because the Palestinians deserve to rule over any of it," he asserts, "but because we don't deserve to be stuck with the Palestinians." Technocrats are still figuring out how to handle a physical separation. Military sources say it will mean building Israeli-only roads around Palestinian towns...
Exchanging pictures was a little trickier. While the controls were clear--you just press a MENU button on top of the frame to select which images to send--Antje noticed that you could transmit only about 10 images at a time, and even that tied up the phone line for as long as 20 minutes. I was disappointed that my digital pictures didn't fill the screen completely--a thin black bar appeared at the top and bottom--but Antje said she didn't mind...
...allowed me to get close with him and get to know him. I don't think I would have spent as much time with my grandfather had I not had these reasons." In a particularly poignant sequence, her grandfather struggles to brush his hair, put on his shoes and button his pants. Agnes helps the viewer and herself to explore the pains of everyday life that age forces us to endure: "He's really great to hang out with. I think my family thinks that he's immobile, but the more time I spent with him, the more I found...