Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ducats so that his friend Bassanio can court the rich heiress Portia. To get the cash, Antonio must borrow it from the Jewish moneylender Shylock. Shylock agrees to lend him the sum for three months but demands as his bond a pound of Antonio's flesh. A contract is drawn up, signed and sealed, and misery descends on both parties. The mutual hatred bound up in a loan under the laws of Venice boils over. Shylock's daughter Jessica falls in love with the Christian Lorenzo and abandons her father. As reports trickle in that Antonio's ships...
...clarified. Brown had been spending a good deal of time with these deadly friends, and he understands them as well as anyone now alive. But he insists he never had a clue to what they were up to. And though his association with Harris and Klebold has drawn suspicion--"I don't know what he is," says District Attorney Dave Thomas, "and we are not ruling anyone out"--the friendship may also have saved his life. Brown chanced upon Harris in the school parking lot just minutes before the shooting began. Harris was pulling a duffel bag of materiel from...
...were getting nowhere. My son's game habit was resisting all the negative reinforcement I could dish out. In fact, the habit was awesome to behold. Nat would arrive home from school and be drawn, as if by some tractor beam, straight to the den. When his friends were present, there was a nearly indecipherable babble: "Hit Bongo Bongo with the ice arrows." "Switch to the Biggoron sword." "Use the Lens of Truth...
Walk into an investment banking office, and you will see mostly young faces. Since bankers are drawn directly from colleges, a characteristic office is made up mostly of people in their twenties. Both Abraham and Wang say their offices' social atmosphere is a benefit of their jobs...
...painting has an extremely complex nature that reflects Steven's perception of her real mother, Alice. In a sort of tribute to her mother, the work includes different moments of Alice's life, snapshots that slowly dissolve from black and white to faded gray. My own eye was immediately drawn to the central image of her dying mother, a frozen moment that captures the reality of pain and suffering. It embraces simultaneous feelings of understanding and empathy, powerful forces that reflect the strong bond between mother and daughter. With a title meant to contradict Dylan Thomas's poem about...