Word: personalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quite practiced at adapting their behavior--including letting others know when assistance is required. It is possible that Martinez's elementary school class was long on helpfulness but short on other aspects of etiquette. Just as it is good to know the posture with which to guide a blind person across the street, it is good to know how to ask. MICHAEL J. EPSTEIN '00 NYANI-IISHA F. MARTIN '97 CLAUDIA MASTROIANNI '91-'94 NANCY A. SIMS '97 BARBARA A. STROM...
...This is not a place for the type of person who is in need of constant encouragement. It's antifeminist," Bagneris said...
...Richard Dooling's brilliant new novel, Brain Storm, Judge Whittaker Stang, a Howard Cosell in robes, scolds an attorney who wants to try the killer of a "disabled person of color" for a hate crime rather than simple murder. The ambitious lawyer thinks that will make him look cuddly and electable in a run for the Senate. Throbbing with scorn, Stang tears into him: "Are we going to impanel a jury to inquire after just what kind of hate this degenerate had running around inside his head? And after we identify all the warped, deviant varietals of hatred...
...ghostly pirate ship in midair, is rocking so vigorously? How does a little princess balance on her head while her trapeze bar revolves high over the pool? And that fellow reading a newspaper--doesn't he realize that his hat, shoes, pants and chair are all on fire? A person isn't supposed to be able to do such things, and few minds are free enough to conceive them. But Dragone is a poet whose language is the human body...
When first meeting her, you quickly learn two things about Shannen Doherty. One, her face is more symmetrical in person than it is onscreen. And two, if you visit the set of her new WB series Charmed and happen to sit in the canvas director-style chair with her name stenciled on the back, she won't punch you in the face or break a beer bottle over your head when she finds you there. In truth, she's perfectly gracious and nonvolatile. Is there anything more you really wanted to know on the subject...