Word: minding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Umpiring behind the plate is even harder, because your mind begins to play tricks on you. You begin to root for balls and strikes, your strike zone shifts arbitrarily by batter, or even by pitch, and you start to make make-up calls, and then make-up make-up calls. One time I got caught dozing and a kid walloped a ball 250 feet. I looked up to see it tailing rapidly, about 15 feet above the left field foul pole. I suppose some folks would have called it a three-run homer, but I just called it a foul...
Drew's mother Pat Golden, postmaster in a nearby town, was at work on the day of the shooting. That afternoon, she had her son on her mind, having just learned that there had been a shooting at the school. Pat withdrew quietly to a back room, where a friend heard her crying softly, worried for Drew's safety. Her husband Dennis called to say authorities didn't know the whereabouts of their son. "Then," recalls Joyce Prater, a friend and former colleague who had stopped by for stamps, "the phone rang again. Pat let out a terrible, terrible scream...
...responsible youngster into a criminal," says Stanton Samenow, author of Before It's Too Late: Why Some Kids Get into Trouble and What Parents Can Do About It. "But a youngster who is already inclined toward antisocial behavior hears of a particular crime, and it feeds an already fertile mind." Most children resist the worst temptations, he says. The trick is to recognize the ones who do not. "If you have a child who increasingly is lying instead of putting some value on the truth, a child who is becoming more ruthless and unprincipled--you need to take some...
When Elbaz, who had spent 7 1/2 years assisting Geoffrey Beene, first brought his sketches to Guy Laroche, Toledano recalls, "In my mind I said, This is my guy." Elbaz had taken a vacation to create his portfolio and produced designs Toledano found breathtakingly feminine. The designer's personal style was also appealing. "When he came to see me, he had on red shoes and a red jacket. The guy knew how to capture your attention." But because the decision was such an important one, Toledano knew he should see as many candidates as possible. "I wanted to protect myself...
...skipping lad, someone you can easily see as "going through a phase." But as he loses mother, father and finally his best friend (Alan Boyle), those pop cultural pictures--hard to say whether the carelessly violent or irrelevantly instructional are more damaging--fill up the empty spaces in his mind. Fill them to a kind of ghastly overflowing, which the film recounts with perverse but curiously appropriate good cheer...