Word: doublet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...certain that the 22-year-old will be posting up against Shaq (7 ft. 1 in.) anytime soon, however. Wang is the starting center for the Bayi Rockets--the team of the People's Liberation Army--and even when he peels off his basketball doublet, he belongs to the army. In China, which is light-years away from NBA-style unions and agents, a team has almost total control over a player's rights. The P.L.A. would fight to keep him. He led the Rockets to five national championships. Says Dallas Mavericks assistant coach Donn Nelson, whose team tabbed Wang...
...Stratford we have only a sheaf of facts slimmer than a Gospel redacted by atheists. He is a man about whom it is impossible to write the literary biography as we know it today--kiss, tell, stab in the back, keep the codpiece, and don't dry-clean the doublet. And thus De Vere tantalizes. He may not have been the Bard, but--with apologies to whomever--was his life the stuff of which Shakespeare's dreams were made...
...Dangerous Liaisons?" Ted in a doublet. "Point Break?" Ted on a surfboard. "Much Ado About Nothing?' Ted tries blank verse. "Dracula?" Ted and vampires...