Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resignedly spent all of it keeping his deadbeat in-laws afloat. He died at 44, in 1894, having written his own requiem: "Under the wide and starry sky/ Dig the grave and let me lie/ Glad did I live and gladly die ..." McLynn tells his story with grace and skill, and only a dull reader will finish this biography without heading for the library to search out a complete edition of Stevenson's marvelous but now mostly unread short tales...
...golf, U.S. Presidents seem to lack that certain something-the word skill comes to mind. This was evident at the Indian Wells Country Club in California, scene of the annual Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, featuring pros and celebrity amateurs. GEORGE BUSH and GERALD FORD did their customary best-driving balls into the gallery. Bush set a new record, striking two onlookers (one of whom needed stitches). Ford, a bit off his game, hit only one bystander. BILL CLINTON managed to avoid felling any constituents, a sign that the Democrats' fortunes may at last be turning around...
...subject to good and bad bouts of fortune, and he is presented as alienated from most of society, except for his devoted wife. The exhibit's biographical materials portray him as a man interested in the simple things in life--his family, his home, his garden. Nolde's skill was his ability to make the outlandish appear from the mundane, and to make it irresistably enticing...
Enter plot twist number three: mutiny. With the exception of its commander, General Guy Atine, the 69th special division is composed exclusively of women (hence, its motto: "Muscle, Skill, Cleavage"). Led by Private FiFi Fifofum, the women overthrow General Atine, prompting him to join forces with Sir Meltdown...
...Hyde" as the frail, yet flamboyant hero of an extraordinary short life. An invalid born into a wealthy Victorian family ruled by a strict father, Stevenson grew into a romantic wanderer, searching for a climate his bleeding lungs could tolerate. "McLynn tells his story with grace and skill," says TIME critic John Skow. "Only a dull reader will finish this biography without heading for the library to search out a complete edition of Stevenson's marvelous but now mostly unread short tales...