Word: dying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very self-assured, honest about my abilities, and somewhat adventurous," says another Yardling. "If my parents knew about [the McLean research], they would die." He says he would not do the program again, although participants are allowed to go through three sets of tests before having to withdraw...
...Those who exercised were less likely to die from all causes, but the largest declines were in the risk of death from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases...
...rare double: while his words resound in Rum and Coke, he is onstage 20 blocks away in a manic revival of the 1930s farce Room Service, a portrait of pre-Broadway opening desperation. Reddin winningly playswhat else?--the playwright, a geeky kid from Oswego who eventually has to "die" for an hour and a half so that his show might live. Director Alan Arkin seems too conscious that Room Service was adapted as a Marx Brothers movie vehicle. Mark Hamill, the fresh-faced Luke Skywalker of the Star Wars series, is mustached and growly as an imitation Groucho; Lonny Price...
...punned), and younger colleagues were starting to grumble that the inspirational rigor of the International Style had turned to rigor mortis. Death spared Mies both from seeing any of the lush species of postmodernism and from the ignominy of a public rejection in 1985, when British authorities denied a die-hard Miesian builder permission to put up a high-rise that Mies had designed for the City of London...
...Killion, Frazier reveals the discovery of a number so huge that anyone who sees it written out will instantly die. Similarly, Dating Your Mom may offer more concentrated Frazier than is good for anyone's health. The book should be stored in some inconvenient place and read sparingly, at the rough rate of two stories per year. By 1996 another collection may appear, or given the kind of guy that Ian Frazier seems...