Word: closed
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...them there, neatly and lovingly, on a heavy wooden hutch in the sunny foyer of the home they shared high on a hill by the ocean. They were married in 1968, long after the rest of the world had fallen in love with him, and still she keeps him close, just steps from the study where a hat-wearing cat and a Christmas-stealing Grinch and a Who-hearing Horton once scampered across the drawing board...
...Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street." Unlike Walt Disney and Charles M. Schulz, Geisel kept the T-shirts and adaptations to a minimum - one fabulous exception being animator Chuck Jones' 1966 TV version of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" - and kept himself and his creatures close to home...
...Howard studied Seuss's 1957 tale of the pompous, lonesome mountain creature who, for reasons never fully explained in the book, tries to ruin Christmas for the adorable citizens of Who-ville. Howard became intrigued by Cindy-Lou Who, "since she's the only Who that you see up close [in the book]," he says, and pitched Geisel a film in which the little girl would play a larger role and the Grinch's background would be fleshed out (turns out he was a troubled youth before his exile). Geisel bit, and Howard decided to sign on as director...
Experts predict that, win or lose, the close vote ensures that Gore will remain the political spotlight for some time--not necessarily ideal for a university president...
...couldn't have dreamed up the spectacle we're seeing in Florida now," says TIME New Delhi contributor Maseeh Rahman. "It's given people here a sense that at a grassroots level, elections in the U.S. aren't that different from elections in India, particularly when it's a close fight - the victor is not always the guy who would have won in a fair contest." The suggestion that a new poll be held in Palm Beach County was also very familiar in India. "That happens all the time here," says Rahman. "If the Florida electoral commission needs some expertise...