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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • At 85, baseball's grand old dame gussies up one more time when Yankee Stadium hosts Major League Baseball's 79th All-Star Game.

    A tribute to the 'House that Ruth Built' 2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Tom Gilroy: Babbling Brooks 2009

  • 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.

    One King. Six Wives. Many, Many Beds. 2008

  • She duties but there -- gussies up for McDonald's every day.

    CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2007 2007

  • While Newsweek gussies it up, Bush is intemperate, or more bluntly, a hothead.

    Archive 2004-08-01 2004

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