Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wish I remembered more of what F.O. Matthessen had to say in his lectures, and Archibald Macleish's stories about Hemingway in Paris as we sat in his Widener office with the spring sun streaming through the window, but I remember the teepee swaying, and the rabbit on the Great Hall table and the tuba player from the Boston Pops who played solo at a cocktail party we gave in Eliot B-42. The tuba player said he'd never been asked to do such a thing before--to play alone at a cocktail party, and he truly enjoyed...
...Pearl tortured animals too and, like Kinkel, went through a "Goth" phase, dressing in black and voicing grim imaginings; Kinkel had a fascination with guns to match that of the Jonesboro boys; like the young man charged in West Paducah, he seemed possessed of a death wish. When he was finally wrestled to the ground and disarmed, Kinkel pleaded with his captors, "Just shoot me." But if these parallels are merely coincidental, others are not easily dismissed. Once again the murderous drama features a troubled youth and a community in which obtaining guns is easy. Once again a high school...
...displayed on the Internet, where he maintains a home page with an exhaustive resume listing every prize and award he has received in his career, every post he has held, even details of his heart surgery. Habibie, says the site, "is the idol and dream of all parents, who wish their offspring to become another Habibie...
...airlines are not far behind. American, Delta, Northwest and other major carriers will arrange for you to give 5,000- and 10,000-mile increments to such charities as the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the United Way of America and the Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Lufthansa's Miles & More program lets you trade in 125,000 miles for a hot-air-balloon ride for as many as four people. Virgin Atlantic Airways offers a two-day parachuting course in exchange for 30,000 miles...
...wish Frank Sinatra influenced more singers today," says Cassandra Wilson, who is widely considered to be the best jazz vocalist of the '90s. "He comes from a time when it was about the phrasing of a piece, the emotional content of a piece. He descended from Billie Holiday and singers who placed more emphasis on the lyrical content of a song. He was very disciplined, and I don't think modern singers are as disciplined anymore...