Word: ages
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...AGE: 30 OCCUPATION: singer/Satan impersonator BEST PUNCH: Repeatedly apologized to fans for their having to sit through Love's set; after Love quit, said, "I think our fans will be a lot happier that they don't have to endure that hour and 15 minutes...
Most chess champions play their first game before age five. MAURICE ASHLEY didn't start until he was 14, but it didn't take long to recognize that he had a knack with a knight. Last week, at age 33, he became the first African-American grand master in history and one of only 45 grand masters in the U.S. He won the title, the highest distinction bestowed by the International Chess Federation, after besting a Romanian grand master at a New York City tournament. The victory came on Ashley's home turf: until 18 months ago, when he joined...
...that looks like a deforestation project. Or maybe you're just unlucky. Go to a keyboard, slug in mailorderbrides.com and suddenly you're an international bon vivant. Do you try Ebony Gems of Nubia, the Polish Love Connection or Thai the Knot? You can shop for a mate by age or size. The world is yours...
...take this out and paint that in. "It seems there is a little something wrong with the mouth!" he complained to one of his sitters, about the demands of another. "A portrait is a painting with a little something wrong about the mouth!" In 1907, at the age of only 51, Sargent decided to give up doing "paughtraits," as he disparagingly called them--except for those commissions he couldn't refuse, like a 1917 portrait of John D. Rockefeller. Sargent wanted to travel more and do landscapes, especially in watercolor--and next only to Winslow Homer, he was the finest...
...back to reality. Almost everyone experiences a sleepless night or two at some point in their lives. The subjects in Morin's study--all of whom were over age 55--had been fluffing up their pillows in vain for 15 to 20 years. Most of them had no trouble falling asleep. The hard part was staying asleep through the night...