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She doesn't need her Pretty Woman laughing shtick to hold your attention: She trusts her features, which are huge and nearly clownlike in their dimensions but which somehow coalesce into a heart-stopping symmetry.
I don't like Richie Aprile, the new thug on the block, precisely because he's such a malevolent thug, at least so far (yeah, he's a bit New Agey, but his whole yoga shtick feels forced, as if the writers decided that each and every character had to be a member of the sensitive, slightly feminized postmodern mob).
I'm taken by Bush's loudmouth frat-boy shtick, for instance.
So when I see an entry in shtuk/shtook/stook/schtuk labeled “British” in Thorne's book, I at once get suspicious, especially when it is defined as `in trouble,' shtuk “in its various spellings” is described as Yiddish for `difficulties,' and there is a (good) entry for shtick , besides.
But by becoming a shtick, the observation of these qualities threatens to obliterate not only Gore's corresponding virtues but also any hope of his becoming president.
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