Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chair, funded by a $3.5 million gift from Beverly Watts and David Watts '55, is named in honor of Mr. Watts' father...
...makes sense, then, except that senior gift isn't like Radcliffe Phonathon or even letters to Grammy: it gets personal. As a senior gift representative sat down next to me at launch the other day, I was suddenly face to face with the opposition and the worst part was he seemed nice. A relative stranger pitching a plan I couldn't cooperate with, to his credit the guy really made it sound appealing. When he finally looked up at me, expecting a little resistance but eventual capitulation, I was stuck. Did I ever say no to Secret Santa? Didn...
NAME: Rush Limbaugh OCCUPATION: Radio talk-show blowhard BEST PUNCH: Read listener's e-mail on air that expressed the hope that Charles Grodin, Alan Dershowitz and Geraldo Rivera would have "simultaneous strokes" leaving them "without the gift of speech...
...feel enhanced simply when talking about him--recounting his feats, recalling a time when your own little life was touched by his. Last week people who know baseball were lit up talking about "the great DiMaggio," as Hemingway's old man called him; his death bequeathed that final gift. I chatted with Roger Angell, the baseball writer, and remarked upon that well-known yet unbelievable statistic: 361 lifetime home runs, 369 lifetime strikeouts. Angell made the point finer when he noted that in 1941, in 541 at bats, DiMaggio struck out only 13 times. Then the two of us sighed...
...Gimme Seltzer. "You go into these TV things always worrying about the kind of egos you're going to encounter," says Sopranos co-star Edie Falco, "but he just doesn't have one." 8mm director Joel Schumacher was equally impressed by the actor's lack of pretension and gift for capturing a character's telling moment or gesture. He recalls how Gandolfini, who plays a pornographer in the film, persuaded him to have a diary hidden in a toilet tank instead of in a silver chest. "Life had taught him that's where the stash is kept," says Schumacher...