Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like a grandfather would give," the boy told The Post-Crescent of Appleton. The photo that sparked the invitation for three generations of Gillespie men was accompanied by a passage from the Book of Proverbs: "There is honor in a great name." "He still has a twinkle in his eye," Steve Gillespie, the boy's father, said of President Reagan...
...central figure in High Art is Syd (Radha Mitchell), a newly-promoted assistant editor at a modish New York photography magazine called *Frame*. Syd is a hard worker and has a keen eye, but because her superiors have yet to fill the intern position she vacated for her editorship, she is currently working absurd hours trying to do both jobs. Her boyfriend Steve (Gabriel Mann) laments what he considers her exploitation by the *Frame* staff, but Syd, confident that her dedication will push her up through the editorial ranks, has no complaints. "I'm trying to stick...
Some people love dinner-party brawls. They hope, under the influence of several glasses of wine, to score a Churchillian bull's-eye along the lines of "Yes, madam, but tomorrow I shall be sober!" It never happens...
...Lyme disease is caused by a corkscrew-shaped bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi. It is spread by the bite of ticks that usually live on mice and deer but also attach themselves to other warm-blooded creatures, including people. Typically, within a month of a bite, a large, bull's-eye rash shows up at the site, accompanied by chills, fever, headache and painful joints. Untreated, the infection may eventually lead to severe arthritis, facial palsy and irregular heartbeat. Deaths, however, are rare...
...want to be remembered, as a dancer or a choreographer?" Graham was asked by choreographer Antony Tudor. "As a dancer, of course," she replied. "I pity you," Tudor said. His words proved prophetic. In her prime a performer of eye-scorching power, Graham insisted on dancing until 1968, long after her onstage appearances had degenerated into grisly self-caricature. Her unwillingness to let younger soloists take over led her to replace her signature pieces with new dances in which she substituted calculated effects for convincing movement. Adoring critics pretended nothing was wrong, but in fact she produced virtually no work...