Word: feathered
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Gulf in order to hold down the price of gasoline." Impatient with the inadequacy and dithering of the budget debate, he predicted, "We will pass a budget that will reduce the deficit by $34 billion, the economy will continue to weaken, and the deficit will grow beyond $300 billion." Feather-ruffling talk...
Such outspokenness has led some observers, like jazz critic Leonard Feather, to feel that "Wynton talks a bit too much." Even Marsalis admits that the shoot-from-the-lip style of his early years went too far at times: "I was like 19 or something, man -- you know, wild. I didn't care." He has since become a less strident and far more articulate advocate for the cause. Says pianist and composer Billy Taylor, 69: "Wynton is the most important young spokesman for the music today. His opinions are well founded. Some people earlier took umbrage at what he said...
...fight is not with Quebec," said Harper, who throughout his stonewalling clutched an eagle feather as a sign of divine guidance. The province's aims "are the same goals we as aboriginal people are seeking to achieve." Ottawa's attempts to mollify Harper with promises of an active role in future constitutional reform were rejected by native leaders. Said Manitoba's Ovide Mercredi: "We aren't interested in horse-trading...
...boys' father, she takes up with Harry, then the parking-lot magnate, then Harry again, and her sons are understandably bewildered. When the younger one asks for some answers, she comforts him with "life is an amazing bitch." The real truth Busch misses is that adult love is a feather compared to the attachments children make. While Catherine's unwillingness to give reassurance to her sons when she has none to give is admirable for its honesty, Busch would have had a deeper love story if he had considered the notion of Catherine's waiting to welcome Harry into...
After dinner, it's time to find a place to stay. Sadly enough, the Crimson Undergraduate Experience does not include room service, feather pillows or wake-up calls. Find a place, if you can, where the bathrooms are cleaned once every other week, where the only food delivered to your room is from Dial-a-Pizza, and where a game of checkers can be heard through the walls...