Word: lanes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reading of Play the Music for Me. On the Secret Garden album, Daisy Eagan, the show's child star, is forever 11, frozen in innocence. Faith Prince's comic chirps and sniffles come across magnificently on Guys and Dolls, as does the schlemiel's charisma of Nathan Lane in his Sue Me duet with Prince...
...Larry Lane Bateman's 1975 Ph.D. dissertation from Southern Illinois University included two plays: one titled Kiss the Sky and another called Lying in State. Both are about male high school teachers who seduce male students. The controversial content of those works might have made prospective employers leery of hiring Bateman to teach at a boarding school. Yet administrators at New Hampshire's Phillips Exeter Academy insist that they never bothered to read his dissertation. At least, not until life on campus began to imitate...
...usual, woe is what sells. Andrew Morton's Diana: Her True Story (Simon & Schuster; $22) tops the best-seller lists; Lady Colin Campbell's Diana in Private: The Princess Nobody Knows (St. Martin's Press; $19.95) and Nicholas Davies' Diana: A Princess and Her Troubled Marriage (Birch Lane Press; $21.95) are on the charts...
Around him, other athletes were pounding away at a Super Monaco GP video game, driving through a simulated Monte Carlo, even as the stars of the U.S. basketball team were in the real Monaco, driving the lane. Their performances were eagerly anticipated. Along the main promenade of town, the tree-lined Ramblas, sidewalk artists had already added Magic Johnson's face to the standard repertoire of Marilyn Monroe and Emperor Hirohito, and copies of Magic's biography were piling up next to canine pianists, peep shows and Ecuadorian panpipers...
...recreation rather than national regimens, they too are obsessive athletes. Several were immersed in the sport while still in diapers by eager relatives. Evans, not atypically, swam her first competitive race at age 5. As a child, Janie Wagstaff had to be counseled not to reach into the next lane and grab an opponent's foot. Even now, she admits, "when I'm swimming against someone, I want her to drown...