Word: calling
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...late May, Wilson had posted a "call forcomments" on the Radcliffe web site(www.radcliffe.edu), outlining the "intellectualterrain" for the Radcliffe of the future andasking for alumnae input. During Commencement,Wilson promised her audience that the options forRadcliffe's institutional status would beexplained--"in time...
...According to Ms. Lewinsky, she and the President kissed. She unbuttoned her jacket; either she unhooked her bra or he lifted her bra up; and he touched her breasts with his hands and mouth. Ms. Lewinsky testified: "I believe he took a phone call... and so we moved from the hallway into the back office.... He put his hand down my pants and stimulated me manually in the genital area. While the President continued talking on the phone (Ms. Lewinsky understood that the caller was a Member of Congress or a Senator), she performed oral...
...provocative enough to hire a homeless woman to walk around the Getty Center in Los Angeles with a sign saying LORRAINE BY TONY KAYE and call it art isn't going to take the re-editing of his first film, American History X, lightly. And indeed, Kaye, a British commercials director, is waging a bitter but colorful battle against New Line Cinema, taking out cryptically worded full-page ads in trade magazines imploring, among others, stars ED NORTON and EDDIE FURLONG to help him. Kaye's beef: despite the fact that he has spent more than $1 million...
...Call it the gift that just keeps on giving. Maynard, now 44, published her first memoir at 19, and since then has earned her living doing little besides writing about herself. She has a website www.joycemaynard.com of course) plastered with snapshots of herself and her children, on which she solicits financial contributions and provides links so that people can buy autographed copies of her books, tapes of her commentary for NPR and a CD she's created to go with one of her novels; subscribe to her newsletter; read reprints of her syndicated column; and peruse rambling letters about...
...published in 1994. The lyrical and haunting short-story collection Krik? Krak! came out the following year. And earlier this year, Danticat won the literary lottery when Oprah Winfrey chose Breath, Eyes, Memory as the June selection for her hugely popular on-air book club. "The call came out of the blue," says Danticat, who had met the talk-show queen while working as an extra on the set of Winfrey's forthcoming movie version of Toni Morrison's Beloved. "'Hi, it's Oprah!' I couldn't talk. I just got a little scared about what it all meant...