Word: rat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Misoso, by Verna Aardema; illustrated by Reynold Ruffins (Knopf; $18), is a fascinating collection of traditional African tales, which are bound to be new to New World kids: "One morning a toad said to a rat, 'I can do something that you can't do.' 'What?' cried the rat. 'You don't even know how to run. You just throw yourself, lop -- and then you stop and look around."' Yes, and then? Listen for fun, but learn too: leelee goro means "little girl" in the Temne language, and jambo is Swahili for "hello." And a "sloogey dog" is a Saluki...
...years Frank Sinatra has won an enthusiastic following among college students through no effort of his own. Usually, young people start listening to him because they find his Rat Pack cool campily appealing, but ironic condescension soon turns to true admiration of his talent. Even though it's not really necessary for Sinatra's handlers to market him to the kids, they have done so anyway. Last year, notably, he was paired on Duets with Bono, Carly Simon, Aretha Franklin and other younger-than-Frank performers...
...rat race [at Harvard]," says Frank T. Apodaca '97, a member of Christian Impact. "People are saying, 'Why am I doing this?'.... [In Harvard's Christian groups] you're really examining how God and how your relationship with Jesus Christ is influencing your day-to-day [existence...
...economic aid package. Rabin -- on his way to the U.S. for a week -- told reporters that he'll meet with decision-makers to make sure that "the size of aid is maintained." There was no comment from Helms, who has pledged to stop sending U.S. taxpayer dollars down foreign "rat holes." That kind of a sweeping cut in aid to the long-time U.S. ally isn't likely to be politically acceptable, notes TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister. "This is the last aid account that I'd expect to see cut," he says. "There's just too much unnecessary...
Sander's spring 1995 collection, wrote Women's Wear Daily, "showed Milan how women should dress -- with subtlety and elegance." Unlike so many other designers (including Jean-Paul Gaultier, who staged his latest show amid carousel horses and a pet rat), Sander does not approach fashion as performance art. In Milan, on an unadorned runway, she presented quiet, knee- length dresses that were refreshingly unclingy, soft jackets and billowing pants in glimmering cottons, a faint blue A-line suit so purely sophisticated that it is something Catherine Deneuve could have worn...