Word: stinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family for reasons even he has forgotten) turned instinctively to using home life as the basis for satire. At prep school, he won a prize for a story about his family, called Buffalo Meat. After graduating from Williams College and touring South America and Asia in "a stint as a wild man in the Navy," Gurney went to the Yale School of Drama. "My whole family came there in trepidation to see my play Love in Buffalo, and left in relief that the revelations were not worse. But after that, whenever something of mine was staged, they pretty much stayed...
...does not fill a concert stage, let alone the Broadway theater where Aznavour is beginning his tour of nine American cities (including Chicago, Washington and Los Angeles). Singing standards like Yesterday When I Was Young, The Old Fashioned Way and She is not enough to justify a solo stint on the grand scale. The star need not wear a mermaid's tail and wriggle in a wheelchair, as Bette Midler did in her recent socko turn at Radio City Music Hall. One needs simply to magnetize the spectator. Midler can do it singing The Rose; Lena Horne does...
Team captain Brad Bauer said yesterday the stint in Florida will serve as both a "season upon itself" and a chance to prepare for the upcoming regular season...
...first break with a newspaper came in 1977, when he landed a job with the Middletown. NY Times-Herald A stint at The Detroit News followed, and he has been at Examiner since...
Though his stint as an admissions officer will be short, Sanchez says he will always be concerned with Harvard's progress in minority affairs. The low representation of minority faculty, the canceling of the minority orientation program, and the lack of a Third World center on campus are areas that the University should address, Sanchez says...