Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talk for hours every day." After Gates went off to Harvard, Allen drove his rattletrap Chrysler cross-country to continue their collaboration. He eventually persuaded Gates to become that university's most famous modern dropout in order to start a software company, which they initially dubbed Micro-Soft (after considering the name Allen & Gates Inc.), to write versions of BASIC for the first personal computers. It was an intense relationship: Gates the workaholic code writer and competitor, Allen the dreamy visionary...
Seven minutes into the second stanza, Union forward Mark Szucs fed a puck to forward Brent Ozarowski. Ozarowski took a soft shot, but caught Prestifilippo off-balance and the shot slid into...
...surprising variety of roles over the decades: as the soft-spoken labor leader in The Organizer (1963), the homosexual fighting Fascism in A Special Day (1977), the Chekhovian philanderer in Dark Eyes (1987), the gentle padrone besotted by a dwarf in the Argentine I Don't Want to Talk About It (1993), his finest late role. He worked with ambitious auteurs from Altman to Zurlini; he lent his bankability to obscure projects. In his last year he starred with Chiara in Three Lives and Only One Death, an elaborate jape by the Paris-based Chilean Raul Ruiz, and appeared with...
...Madonna, softer, more chastened. Or maybe just more calculated. The former shock mistress brought tears to Oprah Winfrey's studio audience when she described feeling her baby kicking on Mother's Day. Department stores may be pushing the dolled-up "Evita look," but Madonna has switched to pastel colors, soft makeup and a demure, Catholic-schoolgirl hairstyle. (She donned the Evita look for the film's Hollywood premiere, but otherwise, she says, "it's something for special occasions. You're not going to see me with my hair up in a chignon, wearing padded shoulders and a nipped...
...unmistakable in his black turtleneck and soft tweed jacket, the former university professor had been until recently but one among many voices in the cacophonous crowd of Zajedno (Together), a coalition whose members were united only by their opposition to Milosevic. Zajedno's potpourri included everything from strident Serb nationalists whose hard-line politics are as autocratic as Milosevic's, to liberals infatuated with Western democracy. Plagued by disunity, backstabbing and factional feuds, Zajedno's concatenation of conflicting groups could barely agree on who was in charge, much less what policies to pursue. Now the huge rallies have given them...