Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...massaged when the show went through a behind-the-scenes shake-up: NBC Sports president Dick Ebersol was given new responsibilities as the executive in charge of Today, an unusual and controversial appointment for someone outside the News division. Then came Norville's unseating of veteran John Palmer as anchor of the Today newscasts. Norville's sudden prominence (unlike Palmer, she occasionally gets to join Gumbel and Pauley on the couch) reportedly nettled Pauley and touched off rumors that she would soon be replaced...
Trading Pauley for Norville, however, may be risky. Pauley, a 13-year veteran of the show, remains a widely recognized and popular news personality, as well as the best interviewer among the morning-show women. Norville, who joined the network as anchor of NBC News at Sunrise in 1987, has yet to prove herself with a national audience. Her chief success to date: as correspondent for Bad Girls, a prime-time special about troubled teens that drew sensational ratings in August. Her fast rise has reportedly miffed many colleagues at NBC News. Last week she found herself the target...
When it really counted, the Big Red (13-2 overall, 3-0 Ivy) would not be denied. Setter Ann Korioth led the Cornell attack with 48 assists. Alex Gross had 15 kills to anchor the Red. In the final game of the match, Cornell converted 41 percent of all its kill attempts to capture the victory...
...fascination to eyes conditioned by the spontaneity of painting since Manet, for now that Velazquez's paint has aged, one sees the radical shifts and erasures of form below the unperturbed surface. There is no texture he cannot paint, from the massive chains of silver embroidery that anchor a Bourbon Queen's black dress to the bottom of the canvas, their slightly tarnished sparkle amazingly conveyed in opaque blobs of gray and white, to the hair of a hunting dog's leg whose living animal nature gets its due in three long and five short strokes of the brush...
Sweeper Andrea Montalbano and netminder Reilly will anchor the defense today. Reilly has excelled between the posts this season, saving 91 percent of opponents shots...