Word: annelies
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...weeks ago, Mama Ann flew in from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to stay at my dad's new apartment in Manhattan for a few days. Because little goes on at TIME on Mondays other than searching for typos in one another's articles, I told Mama Ann I'd take the day off and do grandmother things with her, like having tea. But when I called the week before, she told me she wasn't getting in until Monday night. So I made dinner reservations. But my father called from the airport to tell me that Mama Ann had eaten...
...back from the airport, my dad parked the car in front of my apartment while I leaned over the passenger's seat and talked to Mama Ann. The conversation mostly focused on her fear that they would get a ticket...
...common can still be love. And I couldn't help wondering if my dad's constant suggestion to call my grandmother because "it's all she talks about to her friends all week" is slightly dishonest. But even though she didn't want to do anything with me, Mama Ann did seem awfully happy to just sit and talk and see her family together. Tea, seeing a musical, antiques shopping--those were my images of what old people want. Actually, they're just things I want to do and need a grandmother as an excuse, the way Bill Clinton likes...
...them choose to do it not in Paris or Milan, but in Antwerp. Of the original Antwerp Six, the avant-garde talents who first put the school and this city of 452,000 people on the fashion map in the early 1980s, four of them - Dries van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester, Walter van Beirendonck and Dirk van Saene - remain based in Antwerp. A fifth, Dirk Bikkembergs, left just last year. The sixth switched to theater design...
...Meanwhile, his wife Ann was a teacher specializing in helping children with learning problems at a private school in Washington. Mueller became chief of the U.S. Attorney's office's homicide section where his reputation as a passionate prosecutor came to the attention of Janet Reno, who in 1998 asked him to go to San Francisco to beef up the U.S. Attorney's office, which was then beset by burgeoning computer crime...