Word: williams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dismayed that you didn't feel that theundergraduate committee was the most important[panel]," said Eleanor W. William...
...marketing manager at Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Cincinnati, Ohio, "there have been so many studies done on girls. I think this is, I won't say a backlash, but it's coming back around." One popular title is Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood by William Pollack (Random House). It is boys who are in serious trouble, says Pollack, including many who appear at first glance to be doing just fine. Writes Pollack: "New research shows that boys are faring less well in school than they did in the past and in comparison to girls, that...
Prince Charles is hawkishly protective of his adolescent sons William and Harry, so he was royally peeved last week when the London newspaper the Mirror ran an article about 14-year-old Harry's first shave. It didn't help that what Harry had shaved was his head. It seems the young Prince enlisted some chums to help him achieve the close-cropped hairstyle of his soccer hero Michael Owen. Alas, his classmates proved to be sub-par stylists, and a barber near Harry's boarding school was called upon to salvage the operation, relieving the Prince of his remaining...
...began, like most neophyte collectors who have a bundle to spend, with the easy, lovable stuff: Impressionism, and specifically Renoir. But rather than dive in at the deep end of the art market on his own--a certain prelude to drowning--Wynn found himself a guide in William Acquavella, 60, a closemouthed and formidably well-connected New York private dealer whose stockroom is one of the best in the U.S. Acquavella impressed on Wynn that in the art market, there are no bargains: he would have to pay top dollar for top works. The big test of this came with...
...entertaining parable of repression and awakening from writer-director Gary Ross. The movie imagines that two teenagers, David (Tobey Maguire) and his randy sister Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon), are magically transported from the '90s into the small, sleepy town of David's favorite '50s sitcom. The "knows-best" father, George (William H. Macy), and his wife Betty (Joan Allen), all starched sweetness, are convinced that David is Bud, a.k.a. Sport, and that Jennifer, now outfitted in a poodle-skirt-and-sweater set, is Mary Sue--Muffin to her doting dad. Weirdest of all, the whole town is in black-and-white...