Word: mitzvah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first computer was a Commodore 64. I bought it with money I received for my Bat Mitzvah and it was the first (and last) computer to reside permanently in my family's home. It was big and awkward, but the color monitor was cool beyond belief. We had only recently bought our first color television, so we were especially impressed...
...Smiths joke that they are "cashews," an Irish Catholic married to a Jew who drifted away from his faith after his bar mitzvah. Chicago attorney Stephen Smith and his wife Eileen now find themselves searching together. "This isn't about having material goods and being empty. That's a cliche," says Stephen. "It's being in a place you can safely drop your guard. It's wanting to put meaning to a world where kids are shot going to school." The Smiths often attend Mass and also visit liberal Rabbi Allen Secher's monthly gatherings for those...
Sally: So everybody's standing around, like at a Bar Mitzvah. Suddenly, three blue-sequined and hot-panted women climb onto pedestals on the dance floor. A voice booms over the loudspeaker...
...retailing empire with $9 billion in sales -- and $11 billion in debt. A short time later, of course, Campeau's empire collapsed -- but this is my point! Campeau went bust; Trump's on a leash; the guy who rented the QE 2 for his son's bar mitzvah sank; Boesky, who arrived at that bar mitzvah in mid-cruise via friend John Mulheren's helicopter, went to jail; so did Mulheren, briefly (but not before setting out with an assault rifle to kill Boesky); the S&L boys are in the soup; major insurers are having their ratings lowered...
Falsettoland The conclusion of composer-lyricist William Finn's brilliant minimalist trilogy about a man's struggle for sexual identity blends the same style of daffy Manhattan humor (about nouvelle kosher cuisine, opulent bar mitzvah parties and "the lesbians from next door") with the newfound and baffling pain of AIDS...