Word: gil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Angeles, when jurors convicted Mikail Markhasev, 19, of fatally shooting Ennis Cosby, venerable entertainer Bill's only son, while he was changing a flat tire on Jan. 16, 1997. The Cosby family issued a brief statement saying it was "satisfied" with the outcome. Los Angeles district attorney Gil Garcetti stood outside the Santa Monica courthouse beaming and showering kudos on his staff for scoring a high-profile conviction...
...Many boys have impulse-control problems," says Gil Noam, a professor of education and medicine at Harvard. "They don't think, What are going to be the consequences for the rest of my life?" Bringing them through the treacherous pathways of mass culture takes a watchful adult. Things that merely amuse a grownup can injure a child, whose brain undergoes a powerful development surge before age 14. "Parents don't understand that taking a four-year-old to True Lies--a fun movie for adults but excessively violent--is poison to their brain," says Michael Gurian, author of The Wonder...
...luck to fall in love with baseball at the start of an era of pure delight for New York fans," she writes. "What a storied lineup my Dodgers had in the postwar seasons: Roy Campanella started behind the plate, Gil Hodges at first, Jackie Robinson at second, Pee Wee Reese at short, Billy Cox at third, Gene Hermanski in left, Duke Snider in center, and Carl Furillo in right...Never would there be a better time to be a Dodger...
...author himself was just another guest. "He was kind of a nondescript sort of a guy," said Gil Hause, a Colorado resident who worked with him on his 1974 book "Centennial." "He had a battered old straw hat, wore jeans and a flannel shirt, tennis shoes and was of medium-build.... But Jim was a man who had a very deep feeling for humanity...
...Mendelssohn concerto is standard concert material simply because it is good, not because consummate performers like Gil Shaham like to play it. Shaham's masterful performance on Saturday night, though, drew out the piece's best qualities. Shaham began the violin solo with a rich, elegaic tone, bringing depth without melodrama to the tragic melody. He continued with a flexible tone that was glittering in his sublime upper register and lusty and rich in the low, and an impressive dynamic range that challenged the orchestra to match...