Word: alda
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...lost 30 yards but garnered the material for a bestselling 1966 book, Paper Lion, which was made into a motion picture two years later starring Alan Alda as Plimpton...
...bloody antiwar comedy was an edgy hit, while affable Alan Alda and smart writing made the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital prime time friendly...
...implausibly, deny what made them different from women. The postfeminist backlash of the '90s gave us the chest-thumping likes of Comedy Central's The Man Show. Today's post-postfeminist TV man isn't perfect. But at least he's trying to strike a balance between being Alan Alda and being The Man Show's Adam Carolla...
Last week the office of public affairs at Middlebury College dispatched a press release to education reporters cheering the soon-to-arrive class of 2005. There's the young man who's appeared in "Scientific American Frontiers with Alan Alda," the recent Russian ?migr? who launched a successful magazine and the Kenyan-born, India-raised student who founded a nationwide human rights coalition. And finally the professional clown who toured the U.S. performing in Circus Smirkus...
...seats in its freshman class. Which means that, as every parent, teacher, student and guidance counselor well knows, the competition for admission has grown exponentially fiercer in recent years. The not unsubtle subtext of Middlebury's communiqu? is that unless you're a world-renowned peace crusader - or Alan Alda sidekick! or circus performer! or something else truly eccentric! - the odds of getting into an elite school have lately shrunk to Powerball-like improbability...