Word: home
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...capacity to play in the big games, to compete at the highest level--and never lose--is unique. Some people compete when it's convenient. Chamique steps up when her team needs her." In a Jordannaire display in January, she and her team put an end to the 54 home-game winning streak of archrival University of Connecticut--with Holdsclaw scoring 25 points even though debilitated by a bad cold...
...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 like kids...
...drive home, I realized that I do want to live my life through someone else. I want to share someone else's experiences and put her ahead of me. I wasn't sure I wanted that more than a mansion, monkeys and naked twins, but it seems more attainable. Plus, Hef also said, looking out over the house on his property where his ex-wife and kids live, "The divorce wasn't my choice. Maybe it's not over. It's not over until the fat lady sings--and we don't allow fat ladies on the premises...
...probably sing pretty good. I think I'll do a good job." He is speaking in the living room of a house he owns in the Chicago exurb of St. Charles. Though he still spends most of his time in Southern California, he bought the St. Charles home so he could live and work next door to Joe Thomas, a former professional wrestler turned musician who co-produced Wilson's 1998 album, Imagination, and is serving as the music director of Wilson's tour. As such, Thomas is but the latest in a long line of Wilson collaborators and semi...
...claustrophobic little trap of a novel, it recounts one night in the life of a screenwriter named Jay as he prepares to abandon Susan, his partner of six years and the mother of their two young sons. As Jay goes through the rituals of an ordinary evening at home, he also meditates on the history of their relationship and waits until Susan goes to sleep so he can pack his bags. "It is the saddest night," the novel begins, "for I am leaving and not coming back...