Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sell cigarettes to a minor or anything like that," says Kerry Quikstrom, a manager of the Square's Store 24. "But I think it's ridiculous...
...prelude to transplant is brutal, however. The children receive near lethal doses of radiation and chemotherapy that kill the rapidly dividing sick cells. This leaves the patients without any immune system, so the most minor infection could kill them. It also kills the cells lining the gut, making digestion difficult, and those lining the mouth, producing painful sores...
...they never seem to generate much critical dialogue, to the point that his New York School peers John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler have out-grown him as literary figures. He is too prominent a participant in literary history to be thought of as only a minor poet, but too slight a critical icon to be considered a major one. It's strange--even after winning the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1995 and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Prize in 1996, Koch still seems to be a poet whose presence on the literary scene is undermatched...
...field, a recently-unknown career minor leaguer, Shane Spencer, has become the unlikely Pride of the Yankees following a month of Hollywood-style home run heroics. And, in pro football, the Saints and Seahawks all boast winning records while the once-mighty Redskins, Bears and Bills wallow in last place...
...Last week, while filming a scene with wrestler Jerry Lawler, a bruiser who once put Kaufman in a neck brace, Carrey spontaneously spit on the wrestler in an unscripted move. Lawler, apparently also deep in character, charged Carrey and put him in a neck lock. The actor suffered only minor injuries but is now sporting a neck brace reminiscent of the one Kaufman wore following his fracas. A publicity stunt? The actor's reps deny it, but in the artificial worlds of Hollywood and professional wrestling, one never knows...