Word: actualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...delightful work of literary voyaging (The Way to Xanadu; Knopf; $23) might read something like this: toothbrush, 1; wide-brimmed straw hat, 1; large, leatherbound geographical and poetical tomes, six or seven dozen. But Alexander's account of her travels, undertaken to set foot and mind on the actual places around the globe that inspired Samuel Taylor Coleridge's misty and fantastical poem Kubla Khan, carries its erudition lightly...
That kind of legalistic parsing might not rival the President's occasional hedging, but an actual exchange revealed the First Lady's own artful way with words. Near the end of her press conference, Mrs. Clinton was asked why her chief of staff, Maggie Williams, was "involved at all" in the document retrieval. "I don't know that she did remove any documents," Mrs. Clinton answered. "I didn't send anyone into ((Foster's)) office to retrieve anything," she elaborated several weeks later -- which was technically correct. It was Bernard Nussbaum, then the White House counsel, who distributed the documents...
...hearings, committee members and staffers seemed to be as worked up over who might be leaking such bits of information as they were over the actual tidbits. D'Amato and Senate Banking Committee chairman Donald Riegle, a Michigan Democrat, both called for an ethics committee inquiry into the leaks, which is not the sort of thing that resonates loudly outside the Beltway. The hearings themselves, though, if nothing else, should serve as a kind of training camp in which both sides warm up and test themes to use in the eventual main event: the post-Fiske probe into just what...
...Rouse goes a fair distance to portray the outside world from which Leopold is excluded, transforming Lucy (Jessica Walling), Leopold's unrequited mistress, into a lascivious lover who must compete with the male "friend" Bertram, for the professor's attention, and juxtaposing the confused living room existence of the actual drama with cascades off-stage laughter between Leopold's friends, Suzana (Jessica Fortunato) and Edward (Thomas Parks...
...cost of one test-tube baby is more than $72,000, according to a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. A single attempt at in-vitro fertilization carries a price tag of $8,000, but because of the procedure's high rate of failure, the actual cost is multiplied many times over by repeated attempts. Only about 1 of 10 women gets pregnant with the first in-vitro procedure, and the odds only grow longer after that first...