Word: bags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bets were in, Okiki, a 13-year-old honor student, sat stony- faced at her desk in English class, silently preparing to collect a couple of hundred dollars on a dare. She had settled on a simple plan. Just wait for the bell to ring, reach into her book bag, grab the 12-in. fillet knife she had brought from home and stab the teacher in the chest while Marlena, a 12- year-old accomplice, pinned her down. Then -- whoosh -- instant respect...
That night, Okiki told police, she got "angrier and angrier." She had told friends that "cutting somebody is no big deal" and that she stabbed her father once. A few hours before dawn the girl crept into the kitchen and selected a knife, which she tucked into her book bag...
...kind. On her new album she explores its isotope: the courage to throw the bum out. On Take It Back, a song that rocks like the house band in a sports bar, she tells off a man with a cheatin' heart: "Tonight laying on the street/ Babe, your bag is packed...
...deal with Atlantic, Clinton and his manager, Norman ("Butch") Stone, allowed the crew from Esquire to take them to Planet Hollywood, a touristy restaurant in Manhattan, where the two Arkansans ordered steak and a vast amount of appetizers (the remnants of which they took away in a doggy bag). Roger let patrons take pictures, and he was treated by the staff to free caps, T shirts and a private tour. "I think he and Butch thought it was the funniest thing in the world that suddenly he was now in the position to really cash in," says Will Blythe, Esquire...
...Atlantic. After a short stint teaching writing at Yale, followed by a spell in Paris, he began working as a commercial fisherman to support his art. Then, separated from his first wife (he has had three, and four children), he loaded a few books, a gun and a sleeping bag into his Ford convertible and set off to visit every wildlife refuge in the country; by the time he was 32, this self-taught naturalist had produced the definitive guide Wildlife in America. Already, too, he was showing that he needed a lot of space, and wilderness, and clean water...