Word: stinting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a short stint at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Gwyneth rushed into film work. In the 1991 Shout, she escorted John Travolta through his fallow period, and she played Peter Pan's young Wendy in the hollow that was Hook. She got a break at 19 when she was cast as the evil Ginnie (she steals jewelry from corpses) in Steve Kloves' Flesh and Bone. Wearing Lolita sunglasses and a play-dumb smile, she displayed slow sass and a wicked intelligence. "She was sunshine and light when she walked into the room," says Kloves of Paltrow's audition...
Society may change even faster in the next 25 years than it has in the last. Wills will preside over a much reduced list of who is "royal." And he will have to make the institution credible to the country while at the same time not stint on the elaborate ceremonies that give the crown most of its luster. One step in the right direction is that Wills is a fan of soccer, a game his countrymen are fanatic about but which most royals, who seem to associate athletic endeavor with horses, ignore...
...Cross tracked blood donors and tested blood for infectious agents. In 1988, under FDA pressure, the Red Cross agreed to assert tighter control. But by the time Mrs. Dole arrived three years later, the organization had made little progress. Dr. Jeffrey McCullough, then serving a temporary stint as senior vice president for biomedical services, remembers vividly the meeting where he told Mrs. Dole that they were in the midst of a crisis. "Elizabeth," he said, "what I'm trying to tell you is we're not getting far enough and fast enough to get on top of this...
DIED. G. DAVID SCHINE, 68, the Joseph McCarthy aide whose controversial Army stint led to the historic 1954 Army-McCarthy Senate hearings; in a private-plane crash that also killed his wife and a son; in Burbank, California. The hearings exposed the Senator's communist-hunting excesses and led to his downfall...
MELISSA LUDTKE, who was the lead reporter on this week's cover story, has no children of her own, but she knows plenty about the politics of children's issues. She has written extensively about kids and families since the mid-1980s, starting with a stint as a full-time TIME correspondent in Los Angeles. Moving to Boston, she reported, among other things, a 1988 cover story titled "Through the Eyes of Children." She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1991, and has just completed a yearlong Prudential Fellowship in Children and the News at Columbia University...