Word: beards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...subjects as Joan of Arc, the female form and, most famously, fairy tales. Her 1994 From the Beast to the Blonde was a sort of search for Mother Goose: a look at the (mainly female) tellers of fairy tales that is filled with such tidbits as why Bluebeard's beard was blue--it is the color of both desire and melancholy, "the marvellous and the inexplicable." Now Warner has published a sequel, No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 435 pages; $35), about (mainly male) giants, ogres and devils and what they can tell...
What could have been a relocation nightmare, however, turned into something of a dream. Carlson flew the Beards to Minneapolis twice so they could get a feel for the area even before he formally accepted the job, and paid an outside real estate company to show them around the most attractive residential sections of the city and surrounding suburbs. The real estate firm also offered the relocating family detailed demographics on various suburbs, including the rankings of their schools and the projected economic viability of these various towns. This way the Beards would have as much information as possible...
Well, nobody has faced this job market before. At a time of near record U.S. employment, workers with previous experience are at a premium--wherever they are. Beard is just one of some 880,000 people who will move this year for their jobs. And their new employers realize they must do more than ever to ease the bump of dislocation in order to keep the best and brightest from simply finding another job down the block. This is especially true in the legal, finance, banking, consulting and technology industries, where top talent comes at a premium. In fact, nearly...
...Shared bed with another man --Broke engagement to Mary Todd --Liked the theater --Was quite liberal --Experimented with fashion (owned a snazzy hat, wore black) --Had a "beard...
...Sharing beds was common --Eventually married her --Lived in a log cabin --Was a Republican --Never pulled it off --It really was a beard...