Word: asher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...regain the spotlight: check into the Betty Ford Center, get arrested, or impulsively marry someone you met on the set of your latest movie. As marriage requires the least commitment, it was no wonder that JENNY MCCARTHY, 26, the once reigning blond, got engaged last week to John Asher, 28. After all, it had been a little over a month since she broke up with Ray Manzella, 50, her boyfriend-manager of four years. McCarthy found fame on the MTV game show Singled Out and obscurity on the NBC sitcom Jenny. She met Asher, a director...
...with excuses and conditions: "I am slow of tongue and slow of speech." This line caused some religious scholars to assume Moses stuttered; others inferred a more serious speech impediment. "Who am I," he asks, to help undertake this mission? And who, exactly, is God to ask it? "Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh," replies the deity, which has been translated as "I am that I am." In another response God announces his name as YHWH, a Hebrew word that may have been derived from the verb "to be." It came to be regarded as so holy that it could not be pronounced...
...timethe hype is seething with expectations andpressure--especially since she is the primecandidate for the dreaded "sophomore slump." Aftera debut album that rockets to the top, artiststend to stagnate (i.e. Hootie and the Blowfish),boring their fans and reinvigorating theirenemies. With one of the top albums of all time asher debut, endless radio promotion and an elasticvoice that some consider grating, Alanis wouldcertainly find a worthy opponent in the sophomorejinx...
...happy couple, he spies Lucy and moves on. Then he does a heartrending double take, glides to his knees and asks, voice cracking, whether it's true. Finishing the scene together onstage, the couple are overcome by the real emotion of their own impending baby. Director William Asher, dismayed by the unrehearsed tears, even shot a second, more upbeat take. Luckily he used the first one; it's the most touching moment in sitcom history...
Carey E. Schwaber '01, who selected English asher concentration, says she made her decisionafter taking only one English department course...