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Other Presidents had an anchorman aura: authoritative, a bit square. Clinton has the urgency of a talk-show host. Or guest ("I want everyone to want me"--today on Jerry Springer). He is the first boyfriend (rather than father) figure in the White House since Jack Kennedy. Bye-bye, Poppy; hello, Elvis. That was the cue for the Southern beau-hunk to go on strutting his sex appeal, occasionally swiveling his ideology and forever crooning his ballads: "For I can't help/ Falling in love with...
...will be "legal with a healthy dose of street mixed in." Why not? In fact, why not make Geraldo an anchor? "I think the anchor role will evolve in the next millennium. It will be less elevated, center-desk, O.K.-kids-tell-me-what-happened and more of an anchorman as a reporter," he says...
...wagered an additional $7,000 on the following Final Jeopardy answer in the "Colleges and Universities" category: "Anchorman is an informal term used for the lowest ranking graduting senior of this Institution...
RECUPERATING. WALTER CRONKITE, 80, venerable anchorman; from quadruple-bypass heart surgery; in New York City...
...anchorman Tom Brokaw was one of the three most uncomfortable men in America last Tuesday night. Like his counterparts at ABC and CBS, he had to vamp on the air as two bizarrely incompatible events prepared to collide: President Clinton's State of the Union speech and a verdict in the O.J. Simpson civil trial. In Brokaw's earpiece, frantic conversations were taking place between NBC News executives in New York City and the producer on duty in Washington, with Brokaw chiming in whenever he got a few seconds off the air. "It was an American cultural meltdown," he says...