Word: cribbing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Together, the plays and books paint the fullest portrait yet of an artist whose vision of human existence as a painful, poignant marking of time between the crib and the crypt helped define our world view in the atomic age. In doing so, they correct the canard that Beckett's work is boring, mired in gloom; the Gate pieces were darkly funny and passionate. And they reveal Beckett, who may seem so forbidding and remote as to be of another species, as a stoic but gentle man, a hero of the French Resistance and a generous soul--he once impulsively...
...Michigan Governor John Engler preposterously declared Dole's response "right on." Sensing disaster, Engler moved to end the torture and asked Dole to "wrap up." Unprepared, Dole said he would "yield my time" to others in the audience. When Engler tried again later, Dole blandly read from a crib sheet and won only tepid applause from the carefully screened G.O.P. crowd...
Jill and Joe's Rebecca now lives in a room decorated with mementos from China ("We want her to be acquainted with the culture of her native country," says her mother). And in the mornings she wakes up in her own bed--a crib the size of the one she shared with two other babies in that Chinese orphanage. "For the first few weeks after we brought her home, Rebecca would open her eyes, gaze at me and simply beam, surprised and delighted, looking as if she wanted to say, 'Oh, you're still there,'" Smolowe says. "There are people...
Virtually form the minute Capriati emerged from her crib, her father thrust the tennis racquet into her hand, ready to take both his daughter and himself step-by-step down the road to fame and fortune. As a famous child, Capriati seemed oblivious to her surroundings. Yet one day, the fun and frolic of fame was likely to transform itself into a deeper commitment to her full-time...
...mail while letting you keep up / with the soaps. By the time the $329 "intelligent device" goes on sale next spring, AT&T hopes to be able to offer a whole range of telephone-cum- television information services, from home banking to personalized weather reports to crossword-puzzle crib sheets...