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...worked at Au Bon Pain until about a week before he died. With the weather warming up, he was itching to start performing again. On some days before he quit, he asked if it was a busy day and whether he was really needed...
...former member of Harvard’s varsity Football team, spent a few nights at the Shakespeare and Company, but left after three days because he found the environment “not conducive to a painter or visual artist mind set.” The former Crimson linebacker quit the team in January and withdrew for the semester in early March, having decided to head to France to immerse himself in the Parisian art scene and explore his artistic potential...
Raised in Southern California, an area she describes as the “hotbed of softball,” Allard played many sports growing up, primarily focusing on softball and soccer. Asthma forced her to ultimately quit soccer in favor of softball, but looking back, that decision was probably for the best...
...high civilian death toll would play into the hands of Saddam. He presumably calculates that the U.S. could be made to quit fighting by international condemnation of the further loss of innocent life. In Baghdad, Iraqi officials claimed last week that U.S. bombs hit a marketplace and a hospital, killing 30 civilians; U.S. commanders said the damage may have been caused by falling Iraqi antiaircraft missiles...
...show's flimsy premise is that one member of the comedy duo, tired of being the overlooked straight man, wants to quit the act and put on a play he has written called "A Tight Squeeze for the Scarlet Pimple." This provides an excuse for a lot of dopey vaudeville patter, bad puns ("I Camembert it"), goofy songs, silly walks and men wearing dresses. Typical gag: the show's producer, Mike Nichols, is lampooned onstage as "Mike Tickles"; each time his name is mentioned, the fellow is tickled. This is the kind of aggressively lowbrow humor that American critics generally...