Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...desperate measure is now de rigueur on all their family trips. On a business trip to New York City, Candyce Stapen took her daughter to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see an exhibit of Impressionist paintings but wound up, at her daughter's insistence, counting the dogs in 18th and 19th century hunt scenes instead. "It wasn't what I had planned, but it was wonderful," she says. And one weathered traveler has been pleasantly surprised when her two teenagers have brought friends along on vacation: "If I eavesdrop, I can find out what's really going...
...with martial arts and body building and not much else. As a child actor back in Hong Kong, Lee appeared in 20 movies and rarely in school. He was part of a small gang that was big enough to cause his mother to ship him to America before his 18th birthday so he could claim his dual-citizenship and avoid winding up in jail. Boarding at a family friend's Chinese restaurant in Seattle, Lee got a job teaching the Wing Chun style of martial arts that he had learned in Hong Kong. In 1964, at a tournament in Long...
...with her father. At 15, it was her friendship with Peter and her burgeoning sexuality. At 16, when I portrayed Anne on Broadway, it was her flaws--vanity, overexcitability and quickness to fight--that interested me the most. And now, upon my most recent perusal just weeks before my 18th birthday, I am struck most strongly by her introspection, solitude, perfect self-awareness and sense of purpose. Monitoring my reactions to the diary has shown me how I was growing...
...changed her life so much, in fact, that Ulrich spent eight years researching and writing the story of Martha Ballard, a Maine midwife who wrote of the 810 births she delivered in a 27-year "18th-century datebook." Much of the diary was dry and hard to understand at first, Ulrich says, but eventually she began to learn Ballard's voice...
Autumn ended at the ECAC Championships in Hartford. Two consecutive combined scores of 398 spelled 18th place for the Crimson...