Word: stinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mimi Sheraton, after resigning a seven-year stint as the New York Times's restaurant critic: "I want to stop eating for a while...
...long afterward he became Orson Welles' principal collaborator in the renowned and innovative Mercury Theater. In 1955, when this third volume of his memoirs resumes, Houseman is about to rescue the American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Conn., after its wobbly first year. He has just finished a stint as a movie producer (Julius Caesar with Marlon Brando; Lust for Life with Kirk Douglas). He goes on to direct some of Playhouse 90's best episodes, then establishes a superior drama department at Lincoln Center's Juilliard School. Most of the time he is working by the light...
...last Harvard player to break through was Pete Varney '71, who had a mediocre stint with the Chicago White Sox before closing out his career with the Atlanta Braves in 1975. Varney now coaches for Brandeis...
...Loretta "M*A*S*H" Swit). But that job ultimately triggers her downfall as she starts an affair with her professor's husband a Cambridge architect (Joel "Silver Spoons" Higgins). The relationship drains Toby, and lands her first in University Health-Services, then back home for a short stint. There is, of course, redemption, but to find out exactly what happens, you'll have to watch the 90-minute film. You will never see it in real life...
...Eddie Murphy, 22. Coming off his Academy Award-winning performance in last year's An Officer and a Gentleman, Gossett is now working on a four-hour TV biography of Egypt's late President Anwar Sadat. The tough bootcamp bearing Gossett picked up during his stint in Officer should come in handy. For Sadat picks up the Egyptian leader's life when he was a junior military officer renowned for his rigid back and fierce determination...