Word: da
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Something familiar, something to fool ya, something for everyone: the musical is back. In the next week Broadway will welcome three new ones: the Pulitzer-prizewinning Rent, the movie-based Big and the tap-a-thon Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk. Meanwhile, there's a pair of revivals--A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and The King and I--to prove Broadway can still dance, sing, touch the heart and crack the best old jokes...
...da Bulls lose. They'll probably win their 70th regular season game this week, which no N.B.A. team has ever done. Only two of their nine defeats have come in a row, and they haven't lost to any team more than once. They'll have the home-court advantage throughout the postseason, and no home court is more advantageous than the United Center, where they have a record of 38-1. Chicago has the best rebounder in the world, the most versatile forward in the N.B.A. and the finest player who ever lived. No way this team loses...
...stereotypical sojourn involves a persistent salesman on commission (loud checked sport jacket optional), high-pressure haggling and a persistent anxiety that the buyer was talked into something he or she didn't quite want. Naturally, the heap falls apart in a few weeks, creating a desire for auto-da...
...Moor's Last Sigh is a stunning novel. It is the story of four generations of a Portuguese family in India, as told by its last surviving progeny. The Da Gama-Zogoibys are rendered in full Rushdie relief. The Da Gamas are Catholic, the Zogoibys Jewish. Their combustible union is further complicated by issues of waning colonialism; family politics are intricately woven in with global politics to form a dizzying portrait of people handcuffed to time and place...
...just be critical, says University of Washington neuroscientist Patricia Kuhl. For it is during the first year of life that children form what Kuhl terms "mental magnets," which sweep up similar-sounding speech sounds and file them away in phonic bins. If language-impaired children never perceive ba and da as different, then they may form mental magnets that file these sounds into the same broad category, seriously undermining their ability to group sounds into words and sentences later on. Indeed, believes Benasich, the ability to make fine acoustic distinctions is one of the pilings on which language is built...