Word: homeyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life was never geared to the concert stage," said Cliburn in an interview before the tour began. "My life was always bigger than the stage." He would rather attend the opera, he said, than play the piano in public, and in conversation he preferred repeating his mother's homey aphorisms ("Choose carefully which works to learn, and never let them go; they will always be your friends") to debating the merits of competing pianists. Even though he was going back on tour, Cliburn seemed if anything less interested in the life of a traveling virtuoso than he had in years...
...women in the workplace; for men it is the third, after machine-related mishaps and driving accidents. And while most workplace murders occur during stickups in taxis or convenience stores, the picture of on-the-job mayhem in recent months has included a dainty Connecticut flower nursery, the homey pizza parlor of a Denver suburb and just, last Wednesday the high-tech interior of a Japanese company in North Carolina's lake-dotted Research Triangle Park...
...Games created as many stars as it tarnished -- notably Greg Gumbel, who did a businesslike job anchoring the coverage, and David Letterman's mother, who sent back homey reports from Lillehammer for her son's late-night talk show. Indeed, the spectacular ratings proved that CBS was doing something right. Each evening's program was crafted for maximum dramatic effect, with heroes, suspense and, almost always, an ending accompanied by The Star- Spangled Banner. Who cares if it's old news when you've got a TV movie like that...
...looks a lot like Cafe Pamplona--it's kindof bare, with black wire tables and chairs," saysAlexa M. Gutheil '96. "But it's much nicer thanCafe Pamplona. It's homey...
...weekend here and you'll never want to live anywhere else," proclaimed the sales brochure for the 42 lots of the Whitewater project near Flippin in northern Arkansas. However, despite the scenic snapshots and the homey-but- hokey handwritten spiel, no one was buying into the forested real estate development. To spur sales, Jim McDougal, a local savings and loan tycoon, % thought he needed a model home -- and the help of one of his Whitewater partners, Hillary Rodham, as she then called herself. In 1980 McDougal loaned her $30,000 to build, own and ultimately sell a three-bedroom ranch...