Word: oak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...director of that unit, known at UCLA as the Atomic Energy Project, was UCLA's new Dean of Medicine, Stafford L. Warren, a former radiology professor at the University of Rochester--and before that at Harvard. He had also been chief medical officer of the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and was deeply involved with medical aspects of the first atomic bomb tests at Los Alamos and Eniwetok Atoll...
...article is correct in hinting that there was something special about Oakley's work ethic. But Greene reveals his ignorance by repeatedly calling the hard-working power forward a thug. Granted, Oak was a bruiser and did play a physical game, but he was anything but a cheap shot artist...
While I laud Greene's misguided attempt to honor the Oak and point out the dangers of Sprewell in a Knick uniform, it would be a shame for his readers to come away with a false impression of the man who played with gritty integrity. WILLIAM O. RECKLER...
...hard to blame parents like Alexis Rasley of Oak Park, Ill., if they occasionally get too involved. Last fall a homework assignment for fifth-graders at the public Horace Mann School was to build a mini-space station that accounted for food, water, waste treatment, radiation shielding and zero gravity. Rasley's son Taylor, 10, spent countless maddening hours toiling at a basement countertop surrounded by cut-open soda bottles. "He just kept sitting there saying, 'I don't know what to do,'" Rasley says. "When the frustration level gets that high, you say, 'O.K., I'm going to help...
...couple of disposable up-tempo numbers (Mary Phagan getting wooed by a suitor on the trolley) and turn gooey in big ballads like All the Wasted Time, sung by Lucille and Leo in jail. Prince's staging is elegant but rather quiet, the set dominated by a giant oak tree from which Leo will eventually hang. No one wants a glitzed-up tragedy, but when a show called Parade has three of them, and each takes place at the back of the stage mostly hidden by the onlooking crowd, you can't even go home humming the sets...