Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is not a giant lost and found. People's remains were not lost, they were dug up, usually with hefty grants from the University, the Smithsonian or some government agency. And hundreds of Harvard graduates, whether undergraduate students, graduate students or now-tenured professors at some institutions benefited additionally, receiving their degrees based on this work...
...insisted on another change. Soon to be phased out as national finance director is Anne LeGassick, who helped Wilson raise boatloads of money in his gubernatorial races. She has been hampered by national inexperience and federal law that limits donations to $1,000 at a time, instead of the giant pledges to which Wilson was accustomed in California. LeGassick's promise to raise $29 million was seen by insiders as unrealistic. Wilson's fund raisers say he will be lucky to get half that. Until now, though, LeGassick was untouchable: she and Gorton are romantically involved...
...reporter into my house," he says. If you caught him on television last week at the Emmy Awards, where one of his creations, the hit NBC medical series ER, was nominated for 23 awards (and took home eight), you saw him scrunched down in his chair, as a friendly giant will do in an auditorium seat--especially a giant writer seated in front of god filmmaker Steven Spielberg--5 ft. 10 in.--who directed Jurassic Park and will produce a movie version of The Lost World, and whose company, Amblin Entertainment, is responsible for putting...
...albums in the late '50s and early '60s. A new boxed set, The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings of John Coltrane, captures this fertile period, collecting tracks from 10 previously released albums, along with a full CD of rehearsals and outtakes from his first important album, Giant Steps...
...hours of raw tape found earlier this year, rescued as they were about to be trashed. Impulse! is negotiating to release these recordings starting next year. Dorn calls it "possibly one of the great musical discoveries of all time." And possibly not, but for the Coltrane revival, another giant step...