Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Street won the silver at Lillehammer in 1994, the freckle-faced 22-year-old instantly vaulted beyond the celebrity of any run-of-the-hill medalist, thanks to her peek-a-boo catchy name, a superabundance of personality and a mountain-hippie upbringing. During the next two years, she matured into a dominant athlete as well. She not only became the first American to win a World Cup downhill title but did it two years in a row. Now she's rich too, from endorsement deals with the likes of Nike, United Airlines and Chap Stick. Her signature cross...
Many of us know from personal experience how hard it is to reach out to one another, to show people how much they matter and how much you appreciate them. This task is made almost impossible by death, the great curtain that does not let us peek at what lies beyond. Last Tuesday, I saw my chance to do something for a respected and missed Harvard professor I had never had the chance to know, but who had touched me by touching those around me. Maybe it was small, but it was something, a minor affront removed...
...really live here," he points out, gesturing around his spacious kitchen. "I get home at 10. I'm asleep by 10:30. I get up at 6, have a little exercise, then I'm back at the office." Though he's famous for his love of cereal, a peek at his pantry shows the dates on his cereal boxes--health-food brands, by the way--to be nearly expired; he eats at the office. He claims never to go to restaurants, to have no time to watch television or read the papers (except for reviews--he claims he's read...
...pitches or get-rich-quick schemes. But erotic spam is more than just irritating. It is offensive to many, and if there are young kids in the house, it can be downright scary. Children may not be that interested in getting rich quick, but they may be tempted to peek at an X-rated Website. And while that is reasonably easy to do in any case, the E-mail come-ons can put the steamiest sites in cyberspace just a mouse click away...
While it might seem appropriate for those who have not read the book to pigeon-hole it as the record of a cultural moment--a peek into the lives of artists with AIDS in '80s New York--Gurganus insists that the reader love the book for the humanness of its characters. "We have all been upstaged by the newsworthiness of our particular disaster," writes Gurganus/Hartley in one of the story's more pointed moments. In Plays Well With Others, however, Gurganus triumphs in crafting an emotionally and literarily memorable work...