Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is a subtlety to being core. Some companies, including Jimmy-Z, Vision Street Wear, Mossimo and Gotcha, start out core but make a wrong turn. It can be an ill-conceived magazine advertising campaign (Mossimo). Or turning up in J.C. Penney's rather than the local skate shop (Jimmy-Z, Gotcha...
...interviews with people who knew Du Pre, Wilson tracks her career and scrupulously reconstructs all her performances. But the author doesn't completely shy away from salacious matters. She mentions the affair and notes that Du Pre also felt abandoned by Barenboim, who cared for her when she was ill but, during the same time, also set up house and fathered two children with another woman. This material, though, is dispensed with quickly. Du Pre, Wilson says, "would have been appalled" by the more intimate approach of her family's book...
...future elections, I don't care if the Democratic candidate is Satan himself; I will not vote for a Republican. TIM MCGLYNN Palatine, Ill...
...there the affair inevitably is, right at the center of Hilary and Jackie, its dramatic turning point, if this ill-considered film--which never finds a persuasive point of view on its subjects--can be said to have one. On the other hand, Hilary apparently wants us to understand that it was not for her a big or terribly traumatic deal. Once she accepted, at a comparatively young age, that as a flutist she could not rival her sibling's gifts as a cellist, she (along with everyone else in the family) became her sister's enabler, patiently enduring...
Sherry Meadows, a tax assessor in Mount Vernon, Ill., first considered long-term insurance in 1992 as her 50th birthday made her ponder old age. But she put it off, shocked by the high premiums and thinking she and husband John had some time. But by 1997, he was found to have Alzheimer's. Now Sherry's life is about loss--of John, 56, and of life as she knew it. Only work interrupts her constant vigil. There are no nights off from tending to John since she can't afford the $125-a-day fee for what has come...