Word: stabs
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...sugar and cinnamon, though; there is bitterness as well. Voices tell of unbearable marriages and emotionally distant relatives. There is the occasional stab of tragedy: a small child dies from eating poisonous berries. There are recipes. And there are surprises: a cowboy recalls his first pair of chaps, which were fashioned from his grandfather's horseshoeing apron...
...forget the shows that the Tony nominators ignored. I was happy to see Sixteen Wounded, Eliam Kraiem?s drama about a Jewish bakery owner in Amsterdam who befriends a Palestinian terrorist on the lam, make a stab at Broadway, even though it bombed. Though formulaic, I thought the play had potential when I saw it at New Haven?s Long Wharf Theater in early 2003. But it went badly awry on the road to Broadway, with some misguided rewriting, recasting of the lead role (Judd Hirsch replacing the more credible Martin Landau) and a set that divided the stage into...
...DIED. MANFRED SCHOENI, 58, Hong Kong-based art dealer who championed contemporary Chinese artists, including the country's Pop Art painters; of stab wounds apparently inflicted during a robbery; on Boracay Island, the Philippines. Schoeni, who owned two Hong Kong galleries and a South African vineyard, helped create the 1990s boom in mainland...
...actual process, Thomason said, “we would brainstorm ideas and scene structures and characters, and then one of us would take a stab at writing a first draft of a chapter, and then the other one would rewrite/edit and shape, and ultimately that was the process that we kept with.” He adds that “it’s changed so much over the past six years over who was doing the initial writing and who’s been doing the rewriting...
...plan has doubters too. "It's a stab in the dark," says Casey Alexander, a research analyst who covers the golf industry for Gilford Securities in New York City. "Even if the p.r. does reach a new audience, Play Golf America doesn't change any of the problems that crop up once you get to the golf course." These include matters of etiquette--How many practice swings can I take?--that can intimidate new players. Alexander says the course owners, not the golf pros, must run the reforms. Ron Drapeau, CEO of Callaway Golf, the $814 million Big Bertha manufacturer...