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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Everyday, at 2 p.m., the entire city essentially shuts down. People walk home from work to eat the comida (lunch) and take a siesta. Although they return to work at "4 o'clock," this is Mexican time--so you must add at least 30 minutes...
...hard to be the son of J.F.K., imagine how hard it is to be the daughter of the valiant widow. Caroline had some of the remote, mysterious quality of her mother. When I met her for the first time, I expected to hear that whisper, see a will-o'-the-wisp, but found instead someone with a firm voice, incredibly self-possessed and with a day-to-dayness about her. You could picture that she could make her way in Manhattan, hailing taxis and going to the movies and taking her children for ice cream in Central Park without causing...
...tournament consists of a series of four rounds which occur throughout the year, in which the winner of each round advances to the next. In last weekend's second round, the U.S. team--Sampras, Martin, Jim Courier and Alex O'Brien--lost to Australia, four matches...
...ostentatious Christmas ball thrown by a wealthy friend (Sydney Pollack), Alice gets plastered and finds herself dancing with a skeezy Hungarian player; he whispers cheesy pick-up lines in her hear and she mumbles incoherent responses (not only does she mumble them, she mumbles them so damn s-l-o-w-l-y that you have to wonder whether Kidman was simply exhausted by Kubrick's repetitive takes). Meanwhile, Bill is entertained by a bevy of models before he is called to attend to a hooker who overdosed in the host's bathroom...
...unique burden to bear this summer. Off to DC and miles away from The Crimson's fortress where students forsake Friday night gatherings to take surveys and write articles about the inept social scene, my excuse no longer applied. I was heading to a land where five o'clock meant the start of happy hour, not the deadline for a problem set, to a land where well built frat boys had to wear suits and ties, to a land where the interns roamed free (and you know what they say about interns...