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Critics applaud Sedaris' tendency to mock both himself (the title essay is about his stint at a nudist camp) and others (he titles a piece about people who picked him up hitchhiking "Planet of the Apes").
A precocious student, Rothko went to Yale on scholarship and dropped out after two years, moving to New York in 1923, where, except for a brief stint studying acting back in Portland, he lived for the rest of his life.
But the relationships he forged during his 18 years on the Senate Finance Committee--plus a stint with J.P.
We want the opposite: a list of everything we must absolutely not see, under any circumstances, if it were the only show playing in the godforsaken town where we'd gone for a stint in an isolation tank and ... you get the idea.
My own connection stems from a lifetime of sailing, a brief stint in the WWII US Navy, and an abiding lexicographic concern for terms nautical, the last of which is manifesting itself in the preparation of a historical nautical dictionary.