Word: clubbing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...committee members were also impressed by Floerchinger's experience outside Harvard. Before beginning work with the Crimson last year, Floerchinger spent a year as head water polo coach and assistant swimming coach at Lehman College in New York. His resume also includes head-coaching experience with U.S. College, U.S. Club and New Zealand National teams...
Wayburn--who also practiced medicine as an internist and clinical professor--served as five-time president of the Sierra Club, a national environmental advocacy organization of which he is currently honorary president...
Current Sierra Club President Chuck McGrady praised Wayburn in a statement released yesterday...
Marital boredom gets a sly look in Julia Slavin's The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club (Henry Holt; 194 pages; $22) and Elena Lappin's fine collection, Foreign Brides (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 208 pages; $22). In My Date with Satan (Scribner; 223 pages; $22), author Stacey Richter covers female rivalry and the gender wars in a manner that indicates she may be in possession of one of the more outlandishly imaginative minds in contemporary fiction. Richter's book, just out, is being actively promoted by Barnes & Noble and has already far exceeded the retailer...
Fresh off the club circuit, she's riding a jet stream of hype that has some touting this new Los Angeles singer as the second coming of Billie Holiday. Gray has a raw, bluesy voice, full of dark intonation, and a lovely way of sliding around the beat. But in the upper register, where she likes to work, her voice pinches into a thin meow that undercuts the drama she wants to convey. The single Do Something only skims the anguish she's after. Gray deserves time to ripen before she's saddled with such heavy hopes...