Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bills for $150 an hour for the hundreds of hours he spent going over scripts with her and for $62 billion for contesting their prenuptial agreement--have been setting New York City literary circles abuzz, but Bloom waits until she is more than halfway through this memoir to begin dishing the dirt. For, Roth aside, Bloom, 65, has her own moderately interesting story to tell. She starred in Charlie Chaplin's Limelight, played virtually every major classical role on the stage and has acted opposite--and been romantically involved with--some of the great leading men of her era. About...
...judge has not yet set a date for the trial to begin. Attorney General Janet Reno has not decided whether to seek the death penalty--something Kaczynski's family, which led investigators to his remote cabin, strongly opposes. In an interview two weeks ago on 60 Minutes, the defendant's mother Wanda Kaczynski argued for mercy: "There are people in this world that are mentally ill," she said, "and are we going to start killing them? What kind of a barbaric society are we heading for?" The California-based prosecution team is expected to file its own recommendations within...
...group of women begins to arrive, straggling into a room that has been carefully prepared: soda, sugar packets and utensils sit on the table beside the cheerfully boiling coffee. But that isn't the only thing which as been prepared for them: five feet away, a video camera sits on a tripod, poised to begin its onerous task of pulling in information. Later, the videotapes will be analyzed and results will be mailed off for re-inspection at another location...
...trying them out. Assuming they function as well as we think they're going to and assuming the Harvard community likes them, any new phones will probably be these phones, and we'll probably begin [phasing older ones] out," she said, emphasizing the desire for consistency in the phone system...
...these holds that there are no new, interesting ideas being debated back and forth by the candidates, and that instead we hear the same tired old rhetoric about such issues as the deficit, welfare reform and family values. Cynicism in this area is unwarranted for two reasons. To begin with, these topics may be old, but they are vital and unresolved. If we allow our attention to waver simply because we've heard it all before, then perhaps we've been watching a little too much television. Additionally, there are new ideas out there which are vibrant and exciting...