Word: captains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finally got out issues that we couldn't talk about before because we're mature enough to deal with them," said Suzie Miller '99, who is co-captain of the women's basketball team...
...young girls reading Father Brown mysteries under the mango trees, and his language is crunchy with indigenous hybrids (a golfer's swing is "flatter than a Bambalapitiya cheesecake"). Here he simply unravels the story of two rival clans occupying a piece of land once developed by an English captain with a house called Arcadia. By the end of the book, one scion is running a Shangri-La Hotel, and a matriarch is being buried in chilly London, at a funeral without mourners...
...general has become a lot easier. The breakdown of communities and the peripatetic habits of the population, notes Charles Ford, author of Lies! Lies!! Lies!!!: The Psychology of Deceit, have made lying harder to uncover. If you live in a condo in San Diego, you can pretend you were captain of your high school football team in Akron, Ohio. But for public figures, it's precisely the opposite: TV and the mass media turn the whole country into one small town...
...case I'd rather look at a rampful of glittering dream machines than any number of tasteful Scandinavian vases or floppy fiber art. My only regret is that the show doesn't (so to speak) go the whole hog: with the exception of the iconic chopped Harley that Captain America rode in Easy Rider, everything in it is stock, so that it ignores the creative ingenuity that has gone into making the custom bike one of the distinctive forms of American folk...
DIED. SHARI LEWIS, 65, puppeteer who animated both her inquisitive sidekick Lamb Chop and the quest for quality children's programming; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. Lewis and Lamb Chop, a woolly sock with exaggerated eyelashes, first appeared on morning television in 1957 on The Captain Kangaroo Show. Lewis' talent for ventriloquism and aptitude for engaging children without condescension led to four different series of her own. A talented musician, conductor and dancer, Lewis wrote 60 children's books and won 12 Emmys during her 40-year career...