Word: dozen
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...final shift of his 21-year pro career, with all the fans at Madison Square Garden on their feet cheering as if a Stanley Cup title was imminent, Gretzky did nothing special. That was rare, particularly on this day--when he set up a dozen good scoring chances--and for his unparalleled career...
Self-proclaimed "smut writers" Ford and Cecelia Tan read graphic excerpts from their gay erotic works to a crowd of three dozen undergraduates at Harvard Hall last night. The reading and subsequent discussion was part of Queer Month at Harvard, funded by Open-Gate, an alumni organ that actively subsidizes campus events for gay students...
Nothing is so mundane that it can't be woven into a memoir. Maureen Murdoch teaches a course titled the Art of the Memoir through the UCLA Extension Writers' Program, one of a dozen course offerings that cover everything from novelistic memoirs to personal essays. "As long as the tale has a universal theme, drama and insight," she stresses, "no incident is too small." Exemplifying these qualities are the stories of Yvette Audet, 66, a Maine widow who writes detailed accounts of her childhood: of rising before dawn on cold mornings to pick potatoes on neighboring farms, of kneeling nightly...
...Masters, the greatest of golf tournaments. It offers the tantalizing possibility of a head-to-head shoot-out between two of the game's rocket launchers, and the kind of Jack Nicklaus vs. Arnold Palmer face-off that can make golf absolutely riveting television. Alas, there are eight dozen more golfers in the field. Let's hope they...
...Spielberg's colleagues say he simply doesn't want to run a full-fledged film division cranking out a dozen or more movies a year. "We've been fairly vocal in saying that there's only a certain extent to which we can change our stripes and become pure executives," Parkes says. "We're happier focusing on a smaller number of pictures."(Spielberg declines to comment...