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During the first round Bryant answered ten out of ten questions correctly, faltering only with her "question" of "home equity loan' (it was approved when she changed it to "home equity mortgage loan") Other correct responses in such categories as "elements," "footwear" and "crossword clues" gave her an $1800 lead at the end of the Jeopardy! round...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Senior Takes on Jeopardy! | 5/8/1992 | See Source »

...best way to present a man's life, not as it is but as it is remembered, and to cue us to recognize that a father's, a mother's, a sibling's love is a precious, imperiled gift. The movie is as complex as a cryptic crossword, and as direct as Celestin's greeting when Thomas comes to visit his retarded brother: "You're here. I'm happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught in A Web of Love | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

...home, then peeling them away in the fund-raising parlors of Norman Lear and Pamela Harriman. He makes $35,000 a year (supplemented by his wife's salary as a lawyer). He helps his daughter Chelsea, 11, with algebra by fax from the road. He is passionate about crossword puzzles, and golfs and vacations every year with a group of close friends in South Carolina. He has been wearing off-the-rack clothes since the word got out that one of his suits cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Clinton: Front Runner By Default | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

...Peter Terry was doing a crossword puzzle in a back room in his house in the Staffordshire village of Milford when a gunman opened fire through a rear window, wounding him nine times. The attack left Terry with extensive internal injuries -- as well as two bullets lodged less than an inch from his brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Taking Revenge | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...base of language," one actor says. The theme of what language is and what role it plays in communication, in society, is vaguely developed in the show. At one point, one of the actors climbs a stool and spraypaints dots, not letters, onto a slideshow image of a crossword puzzle...

Author: By Caroline S. Chaffin, | Title: Relying on Imagery, Teaching Patience: Straightlines Opens Experimental Theater Season | 3/2/1990 | See Source »

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