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Trying to reverse this trend, Clinton struck notes ranging from passionate to pleading. Presenting the bill at a ceremony in Statuary Hall at the Capitol, Clinton began waving his arms and banging the lectern, first with a forefinger and then with a fist, as he slid into an ad-lib riff on the necessity for reform: the U.S., he cried, is "choking on a health-care system that -- is -- not -- working." The day after, in a speech to medical students and professors at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Clinton sounded oddly supplicating: "Please help us," he implored...
...than the writers' love-hate fascination with popular culture. But instead of the usual everyone-is-equal ensemble cast, the show boasts an unabashed star. Stiller, 26, the son of comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, plays the lead in nearly every sketch and provides linking - commentary in supposedly ad-lib back-lot conversations with fellow cast members. What's more, rather than performing live or on tape in front of a studio audience, Stiller works mostly on film, which gives the show more polish and pace...
...determined to curtail Olympic hype, and he intends to refrain pointedly from calling every upcoming event "exciting" and every confrontation "critical." Even with the tape delays necessitated by time differences, Costas will cover events as they happen, a high-wire act that will show off his considerable ad-lib talents...
...down-home version of The Black and Crazy Blues. And McCann, who prided himself on being as much an entertainer as a pianist, gabs, croons and narrates an off-the-wall encounter with Charlie Parker. Producer Joel Dorn has so far accumulated more than 200,000 hours of ad-lib material, including doo-wop, early rock and classics as well as jazz. The tapes were made mostly by amateurs; the sound, to judge by Night's initial CDs, is crisp and professional...
...Rose Garden rubbish." Up to now that richly evocative phrase has been used exclusively to describe what political lexicographer William Safire calls the "supposedly ad-lib remarks made by the President on minor occasions." But that was before George Bush and a phalanx of congressional leaders strolled into the Rose Garden last Friday morning to announce that they had hammered out the 1990 budget concordat. Now, in updated fashion, Rose Garden rubbish can also be defined as "the unveiling of a cynical, bipartisan arrangement to avoid difficult decisions on the deficit through the use of artful arithmetic, Panglossian projections...