Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pool keeps a schedule closer to the academic calendar, Lambert said, because its lifeguards are normally Harvard undergraduates...
...phrase. The nonagenarian demonstrates lungs, the whippersnapper sly wit (and an occasional bent for theatrics); both have a sweetly teasing way with a melody. Cheatham?s talk-singing on 10 of the 14 tunes may be an acquired taste. On the continuum of singing horn players, he?s probably closer to Dizzy Gillespie than to Armstrong, but listeners with generous ears will be charmed...
...people and in working together to achieve harmony and understanding." He can accept the notion of divinity so long as it is couched abstractly--as the "asymptote" of goodness that we strive toward--and doesn't involve "characters with beards." He hopes the Web will move the world closer to the divine asymptote...
...above. This isn't a plea for sympathy; along with their self-doubt, journalists are given to insufferable vanity and sanctimony. And if you're like most Americans, you despise them for it. But look a little closer, and see the newsreader's eyes widen when the TelePrompTer starts to stutter, or see the slight tremble in the hand that holds the notepad when the survivors tell the reporter to mind his own damn business. Look a little closer, and then the jig is up. Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: this...
...elaborate parties. One time he created a shtetl on a sound stage to remind his mother of her father's Russian roots. "They had live chickens and goats," she says, "and dancers and lots of vodka." Spielberg unabashedly adores his mother. "There's no way for me to be closer to her," he testifies, "except to live inside her. Which I've already done...