Word: minding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disillusion in which the women are hookers, the men pimps and the audience voyeurs, gazing raptly at one primal scene after another? You'll hoot at the zany antics of Steam Heat and weep over the sweet sentimentality of Mr. Bojangles, but the picture that will stay in your mind longest is the sinister image of a pencil-thin dancer dressed in black, arms held close to his body, with a bowler hat pulled low over his eyes so that nobody can see who he really...
...experience led him to write the greatest love tragedy of all time, not the greatest love comedy." Instead of that final shot of the beach, he says, "I shouldn't be telling you these things, but in my first go I had a sort of ghostly Manhattan in my mind as she walked off--but that was a ghostly skyscraper...
Howard Gardner, who created the theory of multiple intelligences, is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His forthcoming book, The Disciplined Mind, will be published in May by Simon & Schuster...
...Brownback of Kansas, for one, has made up his mind. "The country will forgive a lot," he notes, "but not bad manners." Yet whatever Clinton says, and whatever Congress does, neither side can take much credit for the luminous State of this Union, since they have spent the year in a locker room, arguing about sex. And in the year in which the phrase divided government came to refer to a government divided from its people, says Brownback, that "is the biggest disconnect...
...losing that war," the mayor says. It wasn't until later that they learned he couldn't walk. And yet, Davis says, "I remember him, because my mother cried when he died, and that's the only time I ever remember my mother crying." Brownback is of a different mind, a different generation. "I don't look to a President to be my hero," he says. "Kathy Currier is my hero...