Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...snowed on my dad's birthday before, which is April 18, so I guess I'm used to it," said Jennie E. Connery '99, who lives in Massachusetts. "But I don't like...
...High School South on March 14 when she got out of her gold 1995 Toyota Camry to buy a sandwich at the busy Toms River Shopping Center. That's where her path crossed that of Michael LaSane, who, police say, wanted just such a car to celebrate his 17th birthday. Grabbing the diminutive Weinstein by the jaw, the assailant told her he had a gun and forced her into the Camry. The car was then driven to Manitou Park, about two miles from the shopping center. It was there, police believe, that Weinstein was able to activate the recorder...
...they initiate us into a process more universal than the new year (which is, after all, celebrated at one time in Chinatown and another time in midtown), and more flexible than moons. All of us have our own calendars (April 15 means taxes, and next Thursday is Cindy's birthday), and all of us think in terms of spring cleaning or fall fashions. But seasons induct us into a world of divisions that are never hard and fast (soft and slow, rather); they offer lessons about constancy and flux (The Winter's Tale is an affirmation of spring), and show...
Apparently not. As Kasparov suspected, his duel with Deep Blue indeed became an icon in musings on the meaning and dignity of human life. While the world monitored his narrow escape from a historic defeat--and at the same time marked the 50th birthday of the first real computer, ENIAC--he seemed to personify some kind of identity crisis that computers have induced in our species...
...even greater success in nightclubs, television and movies. His longevity became part of his appeal and the subject of his comedy. "It's nice to be here," he would typically announce. "At my age, it's nice to be anywhere." Years in advance, he scheduled a 100th birthday appearance, first at the London Palladium, then at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. But after a bathtub fall in 1994, his condition deteriorated, and he was forced to spend the occasion at home, though nearly every major comic in Hollywood paid warm tribute. Said Bob Hope: "It's hard to imagine show...