Word: curious
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...spin in your first fire engine. She did seem to figure things out fast and was aware of a wider world. "She taught me french kissing," says a classmate, Gordon Riegel, "not because she was fast, but because she read about it in some magazine like Vogue and was curious...
...classmates' astonishment she left the West to go to Syracuse University, although she had never heard of it before a recruiter showed up at Cheyenne Mountain. Just curious, as usual. She did a double major in education and business. Teaching, she decided, was not for her: "The kids were great; the red tape was horrible." But college increasingly became an assignment to complete. The world of part-time jobs was more real than the lecture hall, and inevitably, New York City beckoned...
...civil war forced Fossey to flee the Congo for Rwanda, where she established Karisoke Research Centre and generally shunned the company of her own species. "All of you have a family, a marriage and kids," she told curious visitors. "Those gorillas are my family...
...Hittorf Gymnasium, a prep school in Recklinghausen (pop. 123,000), where the industrial Ruhr melds into the rich farmland of Westphalia. The reunion, prompted by the visit of a journalist classmate living in New York City, provides a perfect opportunity to catch up. Here with intensity, there with a curious lack of passion, their talk at Niehues' home in Recklinghausen ranges over a lifetime -- and is echoed later, in separate conversations, with former classmates living elsewhere in West Germany...
...West Germany, Stuttgart's State Theater held what amounted to a minimalist retrospective by staging all three as a complete cycle for the first time. For Glass, for Stuttgart and for new music, the cycle made for three extraordinary evenings in the theater. It was also, in a curious way, a farewell to a style that has changed the face of modern opera...