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...that it was probably a bad idea to go on live TV under the influence of mind-altering drugs. When I got the call asking me to talk about a TIME story on that night's late news, I was playing host to a 5-year-old's birthday party, with attendees who included Ella, Ella, Stella, Ale (pronounced Ellay), Elee (same) and Belle, the princess I had rented. I don't know if my suggestibility was caused by a surfeit of medication?in this case, Ritalin?or of liquid consonants, but I agreed...
...scholarly work Evans did and the time he spent helping students and colleagues, he never seemed rushed. Many of Evans’ colleagues remarked on his gentlemanly presence, his modesty, his refusal to say anything unkind about anyone. Tobin said he remembers that at Evans’ 90th birthday party, a friend gave a toast comparing him to a medieval knight. “There was a kind of chivalric elegance to him,” Tobin said. Bruster quoted a passage from Shakespeare in which Hamlet laments the loss of a great king and father. “Hamlet?...
...threatened and cemented this year by mega-flop “The Island” and the widely praised “Match Point”), she is, in the end, something of an ordinary twentysomething. She’s maybe even a little introverted. To celebrate her 21st birthday, only a few days after the time of the interview, she wants to keep it modest.“I’m just gonna have a nice little party…we’ll do a little get-together with friends,” she says...
...affairs had been an open secret for years, but two weeks after his birthday, King confessed one of them to his wife Coretta
...Antarctica; in Anchorage. As a mushing-obsessed Harvard student, he persuaded Byrd to bring him along as a dog driver. Affectionately dubbed "the Colonel" in his adopted home state of Alaska, he climbed the 3,140-m Mt. Vaughan (named for him by Byrd) to celebrate his 89th birthday. His motto: "Dream big, and dare to fail...