Word: graying
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...cigarette and then proceeds to chain-smoke for the duration of the interview. She smiles readily and laughs often, but something soft and vulnerable in her seems to clench reflexively--like a baby's fist around an adult's finger--when personal questions are raised. She exhales anxious gray smoke. She's not the interview type...
...call Geisel greedy or a pawn of corporate interests would be a mistake. Much of her income is earmarked for philanthropy, and she's driven the same gray Cadillac, with a GRINCH license plate, since 1985. And truth be told, Dr. Seuss himself wasn't averse to seeing his art in other forms. He issued some licenses when he was living. In the early 1980s, he expressed interest in seeing his work turned into video games, and at the time of his death he was writing the screen adaptation of "Oh, the Places...
...left - which might seem to make me part of the "liberal media" (is there any other kind?) against which the Radio Right froths and fulminates. Except that to me, Tom Brokaw and Judy Woodruff are not liberal; whatever their private beliefs, on camera they are part of the genteel, gray center, straining for the appearance of impartiality. By traditional standards of left and right, the network anchors deserve the liberal tag no more than NAFTA-loving, welfare-abolishing Bill Clinton does. I'd call Clinton a moderate Republican. The Radio Right would call him the antichrist...
...five-inch by five-inch blocks are arranged in a geometric pattern on the large canvas. You can easily see its strategy-game aspect-the blocks are arrayed rather like the pieces in Tetris. However, the attraction of the texture of the brushstrokes and the striking choice of colors (gray on muted blue in one series, bright yellow on orange in another) arises from the forced structure rather than being diminished by it. McNaught herself remarks that her creativity seems to flow from the rules her strategy sets out. Thus, far from constraining her art, her method allows...
...GRAY MATTER Serious head injuries are just that--serious. After poring over hospital records of World War II veterans, doctors now say that a bad blow to the head may be linked to Alzheimer's. The soldiers' injuries were probably more extreme than those suffered by civilians falling off scooters or playing football (the veterans were unconscious at least 24 hours), but the news is a reminder to watch your head--and wear a helmet...