Word: crickets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well have reflected on a life that had slowed somewhat. Her children were grown: her son Ryan had turned 22; her daughter Allison would be 19 in April. And her husband Bruce, well, he was gone, moved out several years ago following the divorce. The two-story colonial on Cricket Pass, in a tranquil planned community between Baltimore and Washington, should have started to feel a little quiet. After all, Tripp had traveled the world for years with Bruce, a lieutenant colonel in the Army. Fluent in German, she had arranged visits for Congressmen around Allied headquarters in Europe...
Alexandria V. Long, known among Tasty regulars as "Cricket," has been ordering hot dogs and french fries at the shoebox corner eatery for six years, and she's only a sophomore at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School...
...This really old guy named me 'Cricket' because I'm always happy, always jumping around," Long recalls. "Not anymore...
Considering all his childhood idols--cricket players, Russian tank drivers, school teachers--it's difficult to imagine why the grown-up Coetzee decided to write for a living. We keep expecting some pivotal moment in Boyhood that never arrives, an epiphany in which the adolescent boy realizes he is destined to write. After all, isn't the author of a memoir, especially if he's a distinguished author, supposed to explain how he came to set pen to paper in the first place? The young Coetzee, while fond of books and learning, does not seem particularly driven to his present...
...traveled to Pakistan. "She had watched a film of the hospital," says IMRAN KHAN, the cricket superstar turned politician, of the cancer center he established. "She called Annabel [Goldsmith, his mother-in-law] and said, 'I want to help.' There was a young boy who had a tumor on his face. That tumor was festering. It smelled, it really smelled. I was sitting 4 ft. away, and I could smell it. And she picked him up. She held him, completely oblivious to everything." Recalls the hospital's medical director, DR. G.M. SHAH: "The boy could not open his mouth...