Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when we moved in to the suite, the word 'DEATH' was scrawled across the wall in gray paint." He painted in his chalk lines to cover the entire wall of Quincy B-11 with Max and a monster arching their backs to the sky. The book was Baer's childhood favorite and his passion for the horned and hairy things shines through his work. Whenever Baer and his friends would hang out in the room last year, "People walking by on the street could be heard saying 'Check out that wall! That's so cool...
...Apocryphal Protogospel of James says the angel Gabriel first spoke to Miriam by the well. The suggestion that Jesus' childhood may have been dogged by the accusation of bastardy is perhaps implicit in his townspeople's question in Mark 6, "Isn't this Mary's son?" To be called one's mother's son, as opposed to one's father's, was often an implication of bastardy, or at least a sign that one's paternity was unknown, whether divine or not. Early opponents likewise suggested that Miriam had conceived Jesus with a Roman soldier, Panthera. His childhood may well...
...from Hamer's, and he set straight to work. Throwing the rope up and over the strong limb, he started trying to recall the right knot--he mustn't fail at this too. But with all his years of studying scripture, he'd lost the knotting skills of his childhood on his father's scratch farm (Judas was the only one of the Twelve from outside the fishing villages of Galilee...
Born in Seattle, he spent his early childhood at U.S. military bases overseas, where his father was a Navy engineer. When the family settled in San Diego, he started acting in junior high--the first scene he ever played was from (what else?) The Taming of the Shrew. His mix-and-match racial background (African American, German, Scottish, American Indian and maybe a couple of others) didn't stop him from getting roles. "I can kind of play everything because I am everything," he says. He landed a part in TV's Roots: The Next Generations when he was just...
...performer by training. A fallen hippie Yale law graduate (with Hillary Clinton), Stein used his father's connections to get a job as a speechwriter for President Nixon (with Pat Buchanan, David Gergen and John McLaughlin), who was then under siege from, among others, Carl Bernstein, Stein's childhood next-door neighbor and Maryland public high school classmate (with Sylvester Stallone, Goldie Hawn and Connie Chung). Although some have posited him as Deep Throat, Stein has always remained a Nixon loyalist. Tapes of Nixon's resignation show Stein crying, and he insists that he was asked to quit the Ford...