Word: toothpick
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...fish. Before folding in the flounder, some folks read it for prurient gossip about the filthy famous and filthier rich, political scandals, meat-ax murders, baby killers, horse-race results, used-car ads and, now and then, a scoop. It speaks with a cigarette behind its ear and a toothpick in the corner of its mouth. Its headlines are punchy and raunchy: HEADLESS BODY FOUND IN TOPLESS BAR and BEST SEX I EVER HAD. Men read these papers mainly for sporting news. Women prefer tabloids, jokes Mortimer Zuckerman, owner of the New York Daily News, "because women tend to have...
...sleek, handsome, rather restrained) is not exactly Wrightian. On the 35-ft. sliver of land behind Wright's museum, Gwathmey Siegel would build the Guggenheim an addition. Ever since, the firm has been accused by a slightly hysterical mandarin consensus of desecrating the Guggenheim, of wanting to make a toothpick from a piece of the True Cross; the first design, a huge tower that brazenly cantilevered a pale green box out over Wright, was rejected...
...fish), just sits at the table looking massive. He hasn't much choice; but if he's winning (which he is, just now) and you're not, maybe your mind wanders, and you begin wondering just how much he can see through those bottle-bottom glasses, or whether the toothpick he's chewing is the same one he started the day with. This puts you in the wrong frame of mind when Lund (as he does just now) pushes 100 chips worth $1,000 each into...
Drapeau flips the burgers and brings them, still dripping with grease, to the counter. Smith lays out buns and cheese, puts on lettuce and mayonnaise, and skewers the burgers with a cocktail toothpick...
...first game was as tough as trying to hit a Lee Smith fastball blinfolded with a toothpick. Rowning and Yale pitcher Amy Wolberg exchanged doughnuts for seven innings. The defensive plays were just as sparkling, as players were lunging and hustling for line drives and fly balls...