Word: turned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jimmy Carter, former U.S. President Skinny: It's his turn--Camp David accords; North Korean crisis solving; African humanitarian work, plus all those Habitats for Humanity ODDS...
...culture junkie who combs through 50 magazines a week, is proving style and attitude are profitable. He has consistently enjoyed 80% to 90% occupancy rates at his properties; the industry average is about 65%. This year, with only six hotels now going at full speed, he expects to turn an operating profit of $120 million, and in a few years his company could be worth $2 billion...
...writer's job, Morris observes, is different from the actor's in that the author tries to remember backward, to turn experience into a literary account. "To the actor, only artifice is actual," Morris writes. Unfortunately in this book, Morris has switched roles...
...look forward to parent-teacher conferences about as much as I do to periodontal surgery. The night before conference day, I usually have one of those dreams in which I'm in fifth grade playing dodge ball--naked. At my kid's school, we parents wait our turn in the hallway, drinking decaf and trying to hide our anxiety behind our briefcases. When I'm ushered into the classroom, I wedge myself into a Lilliputian desk. Mrs. Widget smiles down with practiced patience. She begins. Nine minutes later, it's all over, and we're shaking hands. By the time...
...Star Called Henry (Viking; 343 pages; $24.95), Roddy Doyle's new novel about the birth of the modern Irish nation, begins with the vivid miseries of its hero, young Henry Smart, who is named for a dead brother whom his grieving mother can't forget. The time is the turn of the century, a dreary hiatus between a past of colonial starvation and a future of war and revolution. Henry's father, a one-legged Dublin bully-boy who free-lances as the doorman at a brothel, can't support the family, so Henry runs wild, stealing from shopkeepers, sleeping...