Word: oakleys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show has a lot of freeze-frame jokes...where you have to have a VCR," says William L. Oakley '88, the show's executive producer. "There's lot's of things that go by too quick for you to see them...
...senior in high school last year she was voted the top junior player in Massachusetts. Recently, she won the championship at the Oakley Country Club, a feat that did not fail to impress her new coach in Cambridge...
Margaret Handles is a rarity in recent serious fiction, a throwback to the larger-than-life heroine. She's a regular Annie Oakley, shooting up the town. When her lover brings around a framed photograph of the girl his parents have arranged for him to marry, Margaret draws her revolver and pulverizes the picture. Two more shots follow, with greater consequence to the plot of Howard Norman's startling, ambitious novel, The Bird Artist (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 289 pages...
...addition to dropping its $25,000 reward for Aidid's capture, the U.N. announced the release of eight of his aides. The gestures are intended to encourage Aidid to join in negotiations that Washington now hopes will end the country's clan warfare. U.S. special envoy to Somalia Robert Oakley met with Aidid after he came out of hiding. Said Oakley: "The U.S. realized we made a mistake getting involved" in the hunt for Aidid...
Seeking to create momentum in negotiations in Mogadishu, U.S. special envoy Robert Oakley declared himself "moderately encouraged" after meeting with various Somali clans and factions, despite one outstanding stumbling block: the U.N. warrant for General Mohammed Farrah Aidid's arrest, which the warlord says must be rescinded before he sits down at the table...