Word: silent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taken a break from her career as a management consultant to write A Darker Shade of Crimson (Simon & Schuster; 286 pages; $23), a mystery set at her alma mater. Similarly, Margaret Cuthbert, 34, a Stanford graduate and ob-gyn, has mined her experiences for a medical whodunit, The Silent Cradle (Pocket Books; 353 pages...
Cuthbert's Dr. Rae Duprey rivals Chase for sheer determination. In The Silent Cradle a killer is targeting unborn babies en route to Duprey's San Francisco hospital, sending expectant mothers into trauma and the good doctor into overdrive. It's a promising start, but then Freud fouls the action--on page six, no less. Turns out that Duprey's mother died in an ambulance while giving birth to a stillborn baby, leaving behind our neurotic protagonist, whose mantra is "Save the life! Save the life...
Some of the people behind Animal Kingdom are as charismatic as the beasties on show. Rohde, 42, an intensely jaunty adventurer with a silent-movie villain's mustache and enough gigantic native earrings dangling from his left lobe to fill a display case in a Nairobi Tiffany's, is a fine artist whose drawings from his world travels cued many of the park's lustrous images...
...monastery on an island in the Mediterranean Sea a mile off the coast of Cannes. The monks at the Abbaye de Lerins on Ile St.-Honorat have, I admit, always been my kind of guys. Early to bed and early to rise, they lead simple, structured and disciplined lives. Silent and humble, they meditate and chant and are ecology-minded. While guests are encouraged to clean up after themselves and help with the chores, they can just sleep, meditate, walk, read and enjoy the contemplative ambiance...
Imbruglia (the g is silent), 23, is the most efficient pop product to invade these shores since the Spice Girls. Her voice is girlish but with a captivatingly plaintive edge. She is mediagenic in the extreme--resembling a slacker Courtney Cox--with big, imploring eyes and the kind of perfect cheekbones that suggest there may be a career in runway work awaiting if her music ever runs dry. Such looks have made her an instant hit in fashion and music magazines and on TV; Saturday Night Live put her on the air even before her album reached the stores...