Word: guessing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...permanent. "I seem to have about a two-year span of attention," he says pragmatically. Doolittle doesn't know what he'll be doing in five years, or in 20, but he says he knows that one thing will be with him for the rest of his life: "I guess I'll die with a poor attitude...
...THANKSGIVING Day, the family took turns leaving our posts for the beach barbecue. But the news looked good. The President was innocent. Even Bush was "stunned." Reagan was briefed but he wasn't listening. They tried to stop him, but that despicable North character shredded his documents. I guess that means no higher-ups were implicated...
...Houdini," reflects Dr. Thomas Loescher, Appleton's chief emergency- room physician, "was probably the greatest magician who ever lived: the drama, the presentation, the superb physical ability, the personality. I've always felt proud he was from Appleton. It's living in reflected glory, I guess." It wasn't until 1985 that the city finally got around to honoring its most celebrated citizen, dedicating its new downtown plaza in his honor. The house where the Weiss family used to live stood just to one side, notes William A. Brehm Jr., a card-carrying magician who is also the city...
...Baccus petitioned the Florida Supreme Court for a waiver of the 18-year- old age requirement for those being admitted to practice. "A judge called Stephen and asked if he really wanted to be a lawyer and if he understood what it meant," recalls his mother Florence Baccus. "I guess he gave them the right answers." Probably didn't miss one. He does not really plan to practice, though, maybe just take a few cases "when I'm between classes." He is up in New York City going for his master's, then Ph.D. in computer science and also writing...
...perhaps connect this yearning for stabilization with Van Gogh's fear of his own ailment, whatever it was (epilepsy complicated by syphilis is a likely guess). It is as though the calmer color, the growing penchant for structuring his work as a process of sequential research into a given motif -- a walled field near the asylum, the olive grove outside it, the pines in the asylum garden -- had an apotropaic use for him, keeping at bay the demons of the unconscious. He wrote incessantly; his letters from the asylum, unmarred by a single note of self-pity, are among...