Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both 48, Murray and Smith raised families and then were drawn to politics for some of the same reasons, including an interest in families and education. There the similarities end, and they are definitely not using the same hairdresser. Murray, known as the mom in tennis shoes in 1992 when she won office in the year of the woman, could be in a Wheat Thins commercial or an Eddie Bauer catalog; Smith looks like she's just come from Talbots and is on her way to accept the Dry Cleaning Woman of the Year award...
...Corn is Green is a play which Harvard students should see, since many parallels between Evans' burning desire to be admitted to Oxford and our own desires, perhaps long-forgotten, to attend Harvard, can be drawn. The play also makes a pertinent social comment on education and whom it is for--the rich and privileged, undoubtedly, while brilliant and poor students such as Evans must make do with their insecurities and emotional battles. With its supreme cast and relevant social questions, The Corn is Green is truly a production to be seen...
...speech a vice? "The need to unburden was a selfish need" goes a line in the English author Nicola Barker's new novel, Wide Open, and ultimately the novel addresses the question of the line between the need for revelation and the desire for indulgence. Even as characters are drawn out of their shells, nothing is ever fully 'wide open...
...resound at the level of a missed heartbeat: "He turned and cut into the sandwich. The yolk was cold, and the blade was much sharper than he'd anticipated." The resonances eventually swell to an emotionally intense climax, as Nathan and Jim's secret about their awful father is drawn to the fore...
Torvalds, like many self-made hacker heroes--and, for that matter, Bill Gates--was drawn to computers at an early age. He's been programming since he was 10 (what else are you going to do in Finland if you hate ice hockey?), when Granddad brought home a Commodore VIC-20 and recruited Linus to be his "right-hand man." Linus immediately started using the VIC-20 to write his own computer games...