Word: chillness
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...could blame Nolan Ryan for feeling the cold chill of his own mortality as he braced himself to start his 711th game in the majors? Sure, Ryan bestrode the baseball record book like a colossus, with more strikeouts and more no-hitters than any pitcher in history. But decay is an inevitable stage in the human condition. And Ryan was facing the powerful Toronto Blue Jays, whose youthful lineup included three players who had not even been born when the Texas Rangers' star broke into the big leagues back...
...April 10 incident--and sent copies to the entire student body and faculty--members of the pro-diversity" Coalition for Civil Rights (CCR) went ballistic. The CCR, which sponsored the nine-hour sit-in, drafted a response to Clark's letter, calling his warnings "a clear attempt to chill voices of dissent on this campus...
Daisy Eagan plays Mary Lennox, an orphan whose unloving parents died in a cholera epidemic in India. John Babcock, 14, plays her cousin Colin, a sickly boy kept locked away from chill winds and excitement in a room where he frets that he will be transmuted into a hunchback like his father. Mandy Patinkin plays the father, his deformity barely noticeable but his behavior conspicuously odd: he visits his son only when the boy is asleep, a quirk that never makes psychological sense. In the woods -- including the walled enclave of the title, cultivated by Colin's late mother...
With the economy in the doldrums and real estate prices depressed, Trump has been scraping desperately for more than a year to meet his interest payments. His bankers bailed him out last summer, realizing with a chill how badly they had been taken and how thoroughly mired they were in the mess. He was carrying a $300 million mortgage on the Plaza, $120 million on the Grand Hyatt, $75 million on Trump Tower. In December his father Fred, a builder in Queens, N.Y., had to lend him $3.5 million to pay his bills. Appropriately enough, Fred did so by purchasing...
...chill winds are not ill winds for all. After three consecutive good harvests, the market is glutted with French wine, leaving producers and merchants with huge stocks. Says Jacques Salle, editor of the Vintage Yearbook: "There's just too much good wine out there." So are the cries from Bordeaux ones of anguish or happiness? Says Peter Mayle, a British author and oenophile: "I think ((French producers)) looked at all their unsold bottles and thought up this scare so the English would worry about how little wine they had and would rush out and buy more." Besides, the vines...