Word: ad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arbitrary and capricious' [legal] standard is a very tough one, but if there is an institution that's arbitrary and capricious, it's the ad board," MacLeish said...
...handling my new friend, the tele-prompter joystick, with the skill of any of the characters in the movie American Pie. Further-more, to be fair, the host abhorred the prompter, and ended up rarely using it during the course of the broadcasts, choosing instead to test his ad-libbing skills against the unpredictability of the motley crew of "extreme" guests on the set, a bout that he admittedly won by unanimous decision...
Then, just like that, it happened. What? You don't remember? My fifteen minutes. Towards the end of Show 9, as the crew grew restless and the host began to run short on ad libs, all eyes drew to me. But, alas, with my luck, my moment of glory, of course, was bathed in a tub of sarcasm. "And look back there," the host suddenly said, after giving appropriate recognition to his researcher, who sat adjacent to me behind the set. "That's Aaron. He goes to Harvard. At the X Games, we have people from Harvard doing menial, behind...
...arbitrary and capricious' [legal] standard is a very tough one, but if there is an institution that's arbitrary and capricious, it's the ad board," MacLeish said...
...Philadelphia native whose only previous high-profile role was in a TV spot for Psychic Friends Network ("Ten minutes free! We're totally stoked!"), Donahue, 24, tried out for Blair Witch after answering an ad in the trade paper Backstage. She filmed the mock-documentary with her male co-stars while the real movie's directors stayed out of camera range and passed along notes to the cast. "It was an actor's dream," sighs Donahue...