Word: cribbed
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...that those pulsing waves, like currents shifting sand on the ocean floor, actually change the shape of the brain, carving mental circuits into patterns that over time will enable the newborn infant to perceive a father's voice, a mother's touch, a shiny mobile twirling over the crib...
...Beckett Festival. For Samuel Beckett, life was a painful, poignant marking of time between the crib and the crypt. But no event this year had more artistic vitality than the New York City staging by Dublin's Gate Theatre of 19 Beckett works--from the 40-second Breath to the tour-de-force Happy Days, with the great Rosaleen Linehan buried up to her wit's end in sand and self-delusion...
...defense (on Whitewater, Filegate, character), while Penn worked offense (sunny economic statistics, vision of the future). Penn prepared what he called "Debate on a Page," a handy one-page primer with shorthand versions of Clinton's key messages. Like a college student cramming for an exam, Clinton kept the crib sheet near him at all times...
...play kicks off with Brad addressing what seems to be an empty crib, declaring his plans to leave home with his new girlfriend in a last bid for independence. Immediately, the Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf alarm begins to sound: Is there a dead baby behind this family's dysfunction? Naturally, there is--though this fact isn't fully revealed until the play's climax, it's obvious right from the beginning, and it makes for a pretty flimsy plot device, not to mention a derivative...
...course, but also to like her, in a way that can't be faked. At Mother Teresa's orphanage, Chelsea picked up a baby and grew alarmed when the little girl started crying. She then did what daughters have always done--looked at her mother at the next crib and began to bob up and down exactly as she did. The most vocal presidential critics concede the Clintons have raised an exceptional child...