Word: stitches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...invasion of their middle-class retreat has horrified Fisher's neighbors and those of her alleged victim, Mary Jo Buttafuoco. The throng of reporters has turned life near both houses into a kind of theater. At the Fisher home on a quiet dead end and at the Stitch N Sew fabric store owned by Amy's parents a few minutes' drive away, doors are shut, blinds are drawn, the symbolic drawbridge is up, and the castle is meant to seem inviolable. At the Buttafuoco home, the style is defiance. A steady stream of traffic, automotive and human, proclaims this...
...comers and partly to their inexperience in the art of collective improvisation. Trumpeter ROY HARGROVE, in his third Novus album, The Vibe, manages to offset both factors by teaming up with outstanding sidemen -- alto-sax player Antonio Hart, pianist Marc Cary, drummer Gregory Hutchinson and bassist Rodney Whitaker -- who stitch a vibrant tapestry around his own fat sound. At 22, Hargrove has the tone, sensitivity and power to emerge as his generation's man to beat on the golden horn. Fortunately, he also has the intelligence to share the stage...
...boss, and Jean Smart of Designing Women, as both of his abused wives. What a pity that promising playwright Jon Robin Baitz, 30, who in THE END OF THE DAY parallels Old World and New World corruption from charity medical wards to drug dealing to corporate raiding, can't stitch together a coherent narrative. His common but fatal mistakes: portraying all capitalists as repugnantly the same without making any of them believable, and sniffishly equating evil with mere bad taste...
...merely improbable as a result of his shrewd and tireless prodding of both sides. The Secretary has repeatedly demonstrated a flair for problem solving, not only by launching the Middle East talks but also by working out an agreement with Congress on Nicaragua in 1989 and by helping stitch together last year's coalition against Saddam Hussein. Baker may not fashion foreign policy single-handedly -- certainly not in an Administration where the President is a seasoned internationalist who also consults closely with National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. But Baker is the man who, more than...
...that tries to think laterally across the institution," says Rudenstine. "The provost office I think of primarily as an intellectual academic office that would be very clearly working in close partnership with the president. But the main job would be to try to see how one could stitch together the pieces, how to get the whole to operate more collaboratively as a whole across schools...