Word: leafing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Americans would sink like a stone. It's one thing to have an abstract notion that he actually had an affair and covered it up (and to have that leak from Starr's grand jury). It's another to hear it from his own mouth, to have the fig leaf of doubt removed and be forced to confront our own moral laxity in being willing to overlook...
...chairman of the Duke University history department, has been outspokenly skeptical of Glenn's mission, questioning its scientific value and dismissing it as a trivial or even foolish use of NASA's scarce resources. If critics like Roland are right, the mission's science is merely a fig leaf. If it's a fig leaf, what is it covering? "This space flight is the same as the first one," says John Pike, director of space policy for the Federation of American Scientists. "It had everything to do with making the country feel good. It's about the right stuff...
Then there's Linda Tripp, whose voice we heard for the first time this week. Addressing an ungrateful nation from the courthouse beach, as the grand-jury stakeout is known, and shaking like a leaf, Tripp made a desperate effort to humanize herself as a truth-seeking patriot, a "suburban mom" protecting her kids. "Who am I?" she began. "I'm you," she answered, "an average American." I shouted back at the TV, "No, you're NOT! Take that back...
...ANGELES No gas-powered leaf blowers...
Every week when the arts section arrives with the local paper, I am always tickled by the list of musical groups scheduled to perform in Connecticut. Perhaps a recent listing that promised shows this summer by three groups--named Leaf Jumpers, Two Ton Shoe and Gargantua Soul--shows...