Word: garret
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...North London study, a sunny garret heaped with books and files, Warner, 52, comes across as rather more donnish than Madonnaish. Ever since that Virgin Mary book, however, she has built a genre-defying career by filling in the gaps between high art and low, merging an encyclopedic knowledge of art history, mythology and language to put her original spin on such subjects as Joan of Arc, the female form and, most famously, fairy tales. Her 1994 From the Beast to the Blonde was a sort of search for Mother Goose: a look at the (mainly female) tellers of fairy...
...Crimson will undoubtedly start aces John Birtwell and Garret Vail in an attempt to stop the Bears. Birtwell is 3-2 with a 2.19 ERA. He has struck out 42 and allowed only 24 hits in 37 dominating innings this year. Vail is 1-2 but sports a 2.73 ERA to go along with his 33 strikeouts in as many innings. Both men picked up key victories in strong outings against Yale...
...many, McDonagh seems to have emerged from out of nowhere, for years leading the garret life, writing plays in isolation in the South London house he shared with his brother, until two theaters--the Royal Court and the Druid Theatre in Galway--finally showed an interest in his work. Much has been made in the British press about his never having lived for any length of time in the Ireland he writes about so critically and so lushly. The question of his national origin is something of a biographical crux: Is he Irish or English? Everyone wants to know...
...difficulty of cleaning Yale's curved, garret and bay windows often requires scaffolding. Partly because of the heroic efforts window-cleaning requires, the New Haven university slashed the frequency of its window-cleanings, which usually occur during the summer when few students are on-campus to avoid disruptions...
...Quakers were just another basketball team, with one pretty good player (Michael Jordan), a good shooting guard (Garret Kreitz) and a bus load of 6'6" forward-ish types...