There are, of course, the more mundane threats, like 20-hour work days and the annoyance of friends who gush over how exciting it must have been to work with Brad Pitt after you ve staggered home bruised and filthy at 7 A.M.

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The colors alone, techno purples, violets and blues, were enough to make one gush, especially in a season that is proving to be filled with either primary shades or pastels.

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While Ketchum is free to paint his organization with the lovely pastels that he chooses, I do not have to gush over his word picture.

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But even as the Security Council has condemned the piracy with Resolution 1838, close to 1, 100 words of the usual mush, slush and gush, an informal international consensus for action outside the fatuous auspices of the UN may finally be emerging.

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We can hope that the Bush gush was flattery intended to show the U.S. president to be nonthreatening as his administration presses ahead with a missile defense.

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