Word: gibraltars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cary's feelings of resentment and alienation had hardened long before his brother's return. Of his father, he says, "Before Steve disappeared, I always thought my dad was like the Rock of Gibraltar. Never trembled at all. All of a sudden, this one day, Dec. 4, 1972, my little brother is gone, and my dad is crying all of a sudden. Never saw my dad have a tear in his eye in my whole life. All of a sudden, life changed...
...Whitfield, 29, turn out to speak the same blues language, lyrical as well as funky. One of the CD's two versions of Solitude is a lovely duet for basses in which McBride, 24, and the nonpareil Ron Carter, 59, weave deep, brooding lines together. (Carter also provides a Gibraltar-like foundation for several other numbers...
...Pillars of Hercules (Putnam; 509 pages; $27.50), Theroux records a grand tour of the Mediterranean, from Gibraltar to Tangier the long way around--that is to say, via the Spanish coast, Corsica, Albania and several points east, aboard wheezing buses, cranky trains and (once) a luxury cruise ship larded with rich Americans. Fans of previous Theroux travelogs like The Happy Isles of Oceania will relish some familiar ingredients. There is, for starters, his dazzling prose, which in a flick of a paragraph can shift from lowly growls of disgust to images of seascape with the allusive force of poetry...
...California and offered $50 rebate coupons. Then there's Salomon Brothers, whose enthusiastic bond department hoodwinked Uncle Sam by buying more government bonds than it was entitled to. Salomon settled with the SEC for $290 million. Finally, there's Prudential Securities, the brokerage arm of the Rock of Gibraltar, which paid $370 million to settle a multitude of claims from investors who were coaxed into buying some trendy limited partnerships, which limited them to big losses...
...Georgetown to visit Foster's wife Lisa. He stayed there for several hours, then returned for a vigil with friends at the White House, where he said "we did a lot of crying and a little bit of laughing" remembering the man Clinton called his Rock of Gibraltar. "When I was told what happened," he recalled, "I just kept thinking in my mind of when we were so young, sitting on the ground in the backyard, throwing knives into the ground and seeing if we were adroit enough to make them stick...