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...apple of his family’s eye, someone who carried the hopes of many on his shoulders, and someone who wore his enormous potential with a winning smile and an easy heart. He was the kind of person who, when he shook his hair, sent a shower of soft light into the world...

Author: By Sarah M. Seltzer, | Title: In Memoriam: The Golden Boy | 7/1/2005 | See Source »

...stands 6 ft. 7 in. and weighs 258 lbs., the bearded Waite, 46, was in Beirut to seek the release of four of the American hostages held by Muslim extremists. As bullets chipped the walls of the A.P. bureau, Waite seized the opportunity to take a shower. "If you can't do anything else," he explained, "you might as well make use of the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Waite's Secret Mission | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Self-anointed revolutionaries and other theoreticians have tried throughout this century to make the theater esoteric and archetypal, depicting a delirious dreamscape, an incantatory religious ritual, a shower of aimless verbal fireworks or perhaps a murmured hint of psychotic menace. Too often setting such moods has been an end in itself rather than a means to what satisfies audiences: telling a coherent, affecting story. In the effort to avoid being old-fashioned, to prove that the stage has an authentic voice beyond the naturalism commonly found in film and TV, theater directors often turn their backs on narrative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Love of Intrigue: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...broadcast live around the world, brought in an additional $72 million. The success of these projects, as well as Geldof s cocky fervor, inspired such allied enterprises as FarmAid, Fashion Aid and--in the late spring of '86--Sport Aid. He knows that much more than a shower of dollars is required to combat famine. "We could spend our money tomorrow, and it could keep 30 million people alive for seven weeks," he says, "and then they'd die. Or, we can build wells and give them a life. I prefer to do that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bob Geldof: All-Out Aid: Rock's New Spirit | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...They don’t have no places around where anyone can take a shower,” she says...

Author: By Anna M. Friedman and Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: The Big Freeze | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

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