Word: teething
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...powdery state. The researchers, who demonstrated the same phenomenon with the chemical compound, speculate that a chemist may have concocted a hoax. The next day, in Padua, four masked thieves broke into the basilica and stole a gold-plated, jewel-encrusted reliquary. It contained the jaw and teeth of ST. ANTHONY...
...look is cool and bright for Jane's scenes (she's the perky techno-mom), and warmer but tarnished for Dede's. The apartment Dede and Fred live in is a domestic mess bathed in an autumnal glow -- as if they lived inside a jack-o'-lantern and its teeth were the boy's cage...
...that respect, the Iceman has already yielded a trove of detail. He was a 20- to 40-year-old man, about 160 cm (5 ft. 3 in.) tall, with tattoos in the shape of crosses and lines. The wear on his teeth suggests a diet of meat and stone-ground meal. (An analysis of his stomach contents may yield more information about his eating habits.) Well equipped for an Alpine trip, he wore a jacket of tanned leather stitched together with fine thongs. His leather boots were lined with hay to keep out the winter chill...
...setting of the stories varies, from Guyana, its towns "smiling...with rotting teeth"; to London, a city of secrets where neither men, women nor buildings are what they appear to be. Melville even includes a rather maladroit cliche, in "I Do Not Take Messages from Dead People"--where a small socialist banana republic overflows with corrupt politicians...
...background, she is self-consciously eccentric and her air of "ravaged elegance" is rather unconvincing. Even worse, many of the characters have a distressing habit of prattling in a stereotyped patois reminiscent of Uncle Tom's Cabin: "Oh, God, Selma, how is I goin' get money for fix me teeth...