Word: backyard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...backyard, ensconced in a cozy black leather armchair, Rabbi Philip Berg, 68, is presiding over a hushed celebration of the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkoth. As the garden party proceeds, he remembers when he saw the Light. "When you meet your master, it takes but a minute," says Berg, referring to the late, hallowed Kabbalist Yehudah Brandwein. "The Light simply turned on." The enlightenment was passed on by marriage as well: Brandwein's niece became Berg's first wife. Since Berg met Brandwein in 1962, the Brooklyn-born leader of the Kabbalah Learning Center has pursued a single mission...
Even though they grew up playing stroke for stroke in the backyard, the two brothers had only played doubles once before and that was just recently at the U.S. Open Qualifier. But considering that Tom was a national quarterfinalist in doubles last year and James is considered one of the most talented freshmen in the country, it was no surprise that the pair entered the Rolex Championships with the No. 1 seed...
...artists and miscellaneous boodlers after their inevitable job-related mishaps and sending them forth to steal again in novel after novel. His best-known wrongdoer is an amusing burglar named Dortmunder, whose fumble-thumbed approach to grand larceny is that of a tax accountant trying to bolt together a backyard barbecue. The unstated, slyly effective joke of the Dortmunder series (The Hot Rock; What's the Worst That Could Happen?) is that everyone in the hero's extensive social set is staid, sober, contented, BarcaLounger middle-class and thoroughly crooked...
...Cuba. The U.S. had received evidence of Soviet submarine-pen construction that would have enabled Soviet submarines capable of launching long-range missiles to cruise up and down U.S. coasts. A Soviet naval base of this magnitude in Cuba would have allowed the deployment of enemy subs in our backyard with great ease and frequency...
...Cline's "Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray," which she sang while sitting at a cafe table brought in especially for that song. But most moving of all was "Infinite and Unforeseen," a song about finding love in the most obvious of places and finding home in one's own backyard. She prefaced this climactic performance with a dedication to "friends and lovers who are dying everyday." "In this world," she said, "where we live as profoundly or as unprofoundly as we do...it is obvious that it boils down to one simple truth, and that is simply love...