Word: teething
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are still plenty of Red Delicious and Empire apples. Both have slightly mushy meat, versus the MacIntosh's crispness. Juice bursts from all the freshly-picked apples when teeth break through the skin. The juice seems to disappear the farther the apples go from the orchard...
...know more after the two have lost a few teeth, won games they should have lost and lost games they should have won. But even if they end up selling aluminum siding, they get to keep the money...
...America from space that can only be called awesome. Other exotic images include pink dolphins, bigger-than-life insects and creatures that look so absurd they're almost cute. Naturally, the famous Amazonian piranhas and other such dangerous beasts show up and startle the audience, if not with their teeth then with their alien appearances. The mountains tower so high they threaten to break the sky-dome of the screen, the forest envelopes the viewer on all sides with its strange beauty and noise, and the audience can truly be lost in the wilderness of South America...
...drowning the story line in seductive word play which, amazingly, is able to lead the reader's attention away from the moral issues underlying the book. "Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth," Humbert says by way of indroduction in the book, providing us with a glimpse of the verbal gymnastics that are to come. In the end, Nabokov's novel is largely about the power of language to transform a fundamentally disturbing situation into an exquisite work of art which...
...shots, and bear the merciless taunting of the clown. "You sissy!" he will say. "Did you play with dolls while all of your friends were out playing baseball?" Attempts to bean the clown directly in his cruel, cruel mouth are foiled by a protective net. He sneers, baring his teeth in a direct challenge. You cry and run away...