Word: talled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...band's guitarrist is an unusually tall boy known as K., who refus- es to reveal the other letters of his name. K.describes himself as "gangly and obsequious," butonly the gangly part is true. K. is funny, bothfunny weird and funny ha ha. He's also quitestudious for someone his height...
...there that he learned the power of racial stereotypes. Tall and dark complexioned, Staples noticed he inspired fear in whites when he approached on the sidewalk. At first he sought to reassure them by whistling Vivaldi. Then he found malicious glee in frightening them in a game he called "scatter the pigeons." One night he hid in the shadows, then sprang in front of a white couple: "The two of them stood frozen as I bore down on them. I felt a surge of power: these people were mine . . . If I had been younger, with less to lose...
Most intriguing is the Brown-Clarkson matchup this weekend. Both teams are currently tied for second, and both probably need four points from this weekend to have a shot at the NCAA's, unless one wins the ECAC tournament. This should be an especially tall order for Clarkson, as it gets Brown the night after its duel with the champion Crimson...
...departure point for In Search of Human Origins, a three-hour Nova mini-series that airs on PBS next week. Over three consecutive nights, beginning Monday, Johanson himself is the tour guide on a journey through the physical and intellectual landscape of human evolution. Starting with the 3-ft.-tall, small-brained Lucy and her kin, he traces the ascent of humankind through some of its milestones: the emergence of toolmaking, the transition from scavenging to hunting and the struggle between the first modern humans and their Neanderthal cousins for control of the earth...
...just turned to places like Houston and Cincinnati, where his name still conjured respect rather than condescension toward the no longer voguish -- but Edward Albee has labored without the New York limelight for nearly two decades. If there is justice, that will end this week, when his stunning Three Tall Women opens off-Broadway. Out of the simplest and most familiar material -- a woman of 90-plus years coping with the infirmities and confusions of the moment and looking back on a life of gothic excess -- Albee fashions a spellbinder. Just when he exhausts the potential of naturalistic melodrama...