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There's fan fiction and now "pal poetry": study my latest poem (on the previous page) ... and see how Newforest gussies it up here, below, finding just the right French words and making it even more meaningful:
Savoir Vivre 2010
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There's fan fiction and now "pal poetry": study my latest poem (on the previous page) ... and see how Newforest gussies it up here, below, finding just the right French words and making it even more meaningful:
inspiration 2010
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Stripped of its rhetorical decoration, however, The Moral Landscape gussies up old-fashioned utilitarianism, whose motto is "the greatest good for the greatest number."
Deepak Chopra: Beyond Belief: Sam Harris Imagines a "Moral Landscape" Deepak Chopra 2010
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At 85, baseball's grand old dame gussies up one more time when Yankee Stadium hosts Major League Baseball's 79th All-Star Game.
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There's fan fiction and now "pal poetry": study my latest poemon the previous page... and see how Newforest gussies it up here, below, finding just the right French words and making it even more meaningful: "Le Point du Jour"
Savoir Vivre 2010
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There's fan fiction and now "pal poetry": study my latest poemon the previous page... and see how Newforest gussies it up here, below, finding just the right French words and making it even more meaningful: "Le Point du Jour"
inspiration 2010
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His goal is for us to accept any view of governance other than the truth that's finally been laid bare these last eight years; 'conservative' is an empty catchphrase that takes a corporatist/super-rich vision of America and gussies it up to sound like aw-shucks populist common sense.
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It takes all the decadence and treachery of an ancient dynasty and gussies it up with pretty people wearing gorgeous costumes that simply refuse to stay on.
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She duties but there -- gussies up for McDonald's every day.
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While Newsweek gussies it up, Bush is intemperate, or more bluntly, a hothead.
Archive 2004-08-01 2004
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