Word: daring
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This is not just a window dresser's manual; we come away with wonderful wisdoms for living today's life rightly. Ultimately, this is a book of the lives of people who dare and try and do. From Barney Pressman to Rei Kawabuko (of Comme Des Garcons) to his own grandmother, Doonan barrels through a life of extraordinary somebodies, from whom he rubs off a heady, giddy, and invincible euphoria which is both playfully irreverent as well as healthily capitalistic...
...November, two prints loaned to Quincy House by the Fogg Art Museum were stolen from Quincy's Griswold Room after the "Bare as You Dare Dance," engendering some concern that universal access might have left the House more vulnerable...
...LAURYN HILL THE MISEDUCATION OF LAURYN HILL (Ruffhouse) Hill has given hip-hop the gift of her own heart: bruised, but still beating strong. She has shown that the genre can reach down deeper than bravado, deeper than rage, and dare to reveal an artist's emotional insecurities and romantic failings and then transform those feelings into music that's eloquent and universal. She's inspired by the old masters--Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley--but she reshapes her nostalgia into fresh sounds, blending neo-soul vocalese and rap rhymes, all powered by hip-hop beats. She soars beyond easy sampling...
...Avoid threats as much as possible. They tend to weaken discipline...In a sense, a threat is a dare--it admits that the child may disobey. It should impress him more to be firmly told [what to do] if he knows from experience that his parents mean what they say." (From Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care...
...Golden Knights dare any opposing attacker to make his way through their physically dominating defense. Roy is the only regular defenseman not at least six feet tall. Mitchell cuts as imposing a presence stopping the rush as he does supporting it. Last weekend, Clarkson held high-powered B.C. to a goal...