Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Atari salary helped stake Jobs to a trip to India, where he met up with a Reed buddy, Dan Kottke. "It was kind of an ascetic pilgrimage," says Kottke, "except we didn't know where we were going." Seeking spiritual solace and enlightenment with a shaved head and a backpack did not distract Jobs from stubbornly haggling over prices in the marketplace and dressing down a Hindu woman for apparently watering their milk. An erratic Siddhartha at best, Jobs came home in the fall of 1974 with more questions than answers. He tried primal therapy, went in search...
...Engle any more. Anyway, Perkins leaped from the New York Giants for the job of his dreams, while the New York opening accommodated the fantasies of Bill Parcells, an assistant coach born a Giant fan in New Jersey. It seemed that everyone's hopes were seen to, except the Bear...
...wife of 47 years, Mary Harmon, has generously shared him with his other love. Bryant has no passion for hobbies. He swings a golf stick, but he swings it like a scythe. "I don't know," he says. "What is there to do on Saturday afternoons except be excited...
...work went on display in a one-woman show in Manhattan's SoHo district. For her depiction of down-home folks sitting on front stoops or ambling along Main Street, Church uses family, friends and even herself as models-just about everybody around her, in fact, except her husband. Says she: "I'm scared to. I don't like to be kind to people in my paintings...
...that, alas, is all there is. Even good acting by Burstyn, Maher and the rest of the company cannot create a play where none exists. The dialogue is sometimes unbearably cloying. Hanff is given to saying things like "thou varlet," but except for the fact that she is single, Roose-Evans tells almost nothing about her, far less than he reveals about her friends in England. Does she have a love life? Not a word. Does she ever leave her apartment? Again, scarcely a syllable. Has she ever explored one of Manhattan's secondhand bookstores? Apparently not. There...