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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fire doors are gateways to another dimension--a dimension beyond sight, but not beyond sound. You wonder just who is on the other side--a prospective soul mate? A future spouse? A freak? And why are they making those oh-so-strange sounds? Be warned: alarms may blare when you open the door, but these threats are barren, at most. You may find that the door, no matter how thin, separates you from your neighbor for a reason...
...Woodland Hastings, master of North House, at her brother's graduation at Swarthmore. Six years transpired before they met again at Johns Hopkins. She was a graduate student in History and he was a post doc. Her "brother brought him home for dinner and it was love at first sight." They had a stormy "on again, off again" courtship and when he proposed Mrs. Hastings turned to her father, who advised, "If you don't marry him now, you never will.'" She took Daddy's advice, and today she says she is "happy to see [her husband] when he comes...
...would want to ask [Gingrich] if he has forgotten the history which he purported to teach," said Mendelsohn. "In a sense he has lost sight of the elements in human history where compassion played an important role...
Imagine Mario Cuomo presiding over the New York State legislature in a ball gown and tiara. Today, such a sight might have ended his political career, if the Republicans hadn't gotten to him first. In fact, Cuomo would just have been following the lead of his predecessor Lord Cornbury, the Colonial governor of New York in 1702. Cornbury, using the excuse that he had to he had to represent Queen Anne as best he could, regularly wore women's clothing to the state's Assembly. His portrait--in which he sports "a gown, stays, tucker, long ruffles...
...Keanu's sister was among them, and He had been invited by her. About fifteen minutes after I arrived, Keanu strode into the courtyard, sporting an air of nonchalance, a Hollywood-chic black outfit, and a seemingly genuine enjoyment of His particular situation on this festive day. I caught sight of the stares from girls to their friends that screamed, "HE'S HERE OMIGOD HE'S GORGEOUS!" just as I saw Him for the first time, almost face to face. I nodded to acknowledge Him--almost in deference--and He nodded to acknowledge me. At that moment I was sold...