Word: career
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...music itself--and for no apparent purpose. It is strange that someone like Costello, generally acknowledged as one of the greatest lyricists in music, resorts to pat jokes about the Beastie Boys, CNN News and Oliver North. It's almost as if he wants to start a second career as Jay Leno...
...graduate oration, Putnam will discusshis experiences after leaving a lifetime career ofteaching to return to school. "My address is aconfirmation of what it's like to go back toschool and learn about a field you've been in fora while," said the 41-year-old formerschoolteacher, who is working on a M.Ed. degree...
Broderick had a smarter idea for expanding his career horizons: get in a good movie. Project X is the best thriller about monkeys since the original King Kong and a touching parable about parenting to boot. In a Wisconsin research lab, Teri MacDonald (Helen Hunt) is teaching sign language to her prize pupil, a chimpanzee named Virgil (beautifully played -- no kidding -- by a chimp named Willie). After two years, Virgil is shipped to an Air Force base in Florida for a top-secret experiment shepherded by Jimmy Garrett (Broderick), a bright, goof-off airman who develops the same parental bond...
...written by Ronald Ribman and directed by Fielder Cook, takes a few careful liberties with Bellow's story but packs its essence into a compact, ruefully funny and tensely moving 90 minutes. In odd but inspired casting, Robin Williams plays Tommy and delivers the best dramatic performance of his career. In past roles, Williams has sometimes seemed mechanical and pinched. Here his hyperactive face and vocal tics are orchestrated into a wrenching picture of panic and desperation...
Most Americans older than 13 already know more about Richard Milhous Nixon than they may realize or, in many cases, appreciate. To a remarkable extent, his life has been led in public, his up-and-down and then up-again-and-down- again career a long-running soap opera that played on all the networks. The ubiquitous male lead was regularly humiliated (Who can forget the Checkers episode in 1952 or the "last press conference" in 1962?), but he always bounced back, a new Nixon, ready for another crisis that would again display his anguish before a dumbfounded public...