Word: fall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...streaks of yellow and fins inspired by an Art Deco pin. Fine, but would it fly? "Part of my phony-baloney research was to watch a lot of educational TV," says Chiang. "But this is film reality, not reality. Put my plane in a wind tunnel and it would fall apart...
Bill Moyers' upcoming PBS specials will include Free Speech for Sale on June 8 and Fooling with Words in the fall...
...Guterson, known for his flannel shirts and the home schooling of his four children, was until recently a high school teacher who cited as his inspiration the schoolroom classic To Kill a Mockingbird. But in the midst of this unpresuming existence, his meticulously researched yet crackling debut novel, Snow Falling on Cedars (1994), became one of the fastest-selling literary novels of the decade, moving more than 2.5 million copies in paperback even as it won critical prizes. (The movie version will be released this fall...
...with sweat. I knew goalies were flexible and focused, but their job looked kind of sedentary, which is why it appealed to me in the first place. It turns out a goalie can lose 10 lbs. during a game. I couldn't believe how exhausting it is just to fall down on your knees and quickly get up again...
...year-old man of appealing parts. He dresses like a banker and has the face of a kid who is ready to be pleasantly surprised. In conversation he remembers every ball he has tossed in the air, and just when you think that a long discourse is about to fall off the earth, he brings it tidily home. His voice lilts upward, giving everything he says, including instructions to his staff, confidence with gentleness. And he is funny--not so much on his own, but he likes to quote the witty things said by others, drawing on material from...