Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eighth or ninth version of anything (except Beethoven's symphonies) is likely to seem less fresh than the first, and for all its bustle Hercules hasn't quite the wit to make one forget Aladdin. But one shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth, especially if it's Pegasus. Sixty years after Snow White, Hercules proves that Walt's art form is still sassy and snazzy...
...York afternoon. It was not true that Jonathan had left them alone in the cold world. They had one another, and they had themselves. He had not taught them how to live (Who can do that?), but he had taught them to live. And this was the immutable gift of one who knew how to love and teach kids...
Gray maintains that he also learned from Maharishi's mistakes. "His movement became all about him," he says. "What I try to do when I'm onstage and my gift is shining--and it is very impressive to people--[is to] reveal parts of me that aren't so shiny and impressive." This is, in part, his justification for spreading his seed, as it were--for selling his name and methods to others...
...tough way to make a living, but that suits Drudge, 30, just fine. The son of a lawyer and a social worker, he worked his way into the celebrity-gossip business from the bottom--the CBS gift shop at Studio City. He sees himself as a kind of digital Robin Hood among a corrupt and venal press. "Journalists aren't supposed to make money," he says, in a tone that's spoiling the taste of my Frappucino. "I've got enough to feed me and the cat, Dexter. And enough to shine my shoes...
...Equality of Women at Harvard has received $500,000 from alumnae that it plans to hold in escrow until the University has tenured an acceptable number of women--specifically, the standpoint set by the University report of 1970. And the senior class has established the Alternative Senior Gift Fund with the same criterion for its release...