Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nearly all the co-anchor schemes since Chet Huntley and David Brinkley broke up in 1970 (an entropy year: Huntley-Brinkley and the Beatles) have been awkward. ABC failed badly with Harry Reasoner and Barbara Walters. NBC's Tom Brokaw-and-Roger Mudd team was just as happy and long-lived. NBC once considered hiring Diane Sawyer as a co-anchor, and discussions of teaming Brokaw with, say, Jane Pauley will now revive. But, says Brokaw, "I'd be bored. There's not enough for two people to do." If ABC wants to switch to a co-anchorship...
...stakes for the President, meanwhile, have escalated. By sending Christopher abroad and calling for prompt action after the Bosnian-Serb rejection, Clinton generated momentum toward a confrontation. It would be awkward for him to back down. "Once you say you're going to do something," explained a congressional leader who was briefed by Aspin last week, "you have to do it. There is no turning back without a big cost." Even so, Clinton is not planning to order any military moves unilaterally or suddenly. He intends to ask Congress for a vote of confidence and the U.N. Security Council...
...providing no action or interest of note. The script doesn't allow for the actors to do very much else besides sing, and as the show progresses we are struck with the distinct impression that this is a series of musical numbers with very little to tie them together. Awkward pauses between scenes, instrumental recaps of already-performed songs during set changes, and unfocussed flashes of a projected world map onto a white board (to show us where Fogg ventures next) combine to strike the word 'musical' from our minds, and insert 'musical revue' in its stead...
...would miss 10 out of 10." Gillette sent down former Boston Celtics star Dave Cowens to give him pointers. "Dave says I shoot like a pipe fitter. And I do," Bobby concedes with a laugh. "At 45 years old, when you're learning to shoot, you feel sorta awkward." Bobby learned to push the ball off with one hand instead of throwing it with two. And, with Cowens' help, he did improve his average to almost...
...Rogers is cracking up, and not all that slowly. She is married to a bright, fairly sympathetic fellow who restores houses, and she is a successful partner in a business that makes videos of weddings. Makes, in fact, seamlessly joyous videos of weddings often awkward and sour, which is an art, and one she is good at. But her hobbies, shoplifting clothes from Bergdorf and ingesting methamphetamine, which she does quite often from the tip of her jackknife blade, don't foretell a long and happy life. She is a diabetic, in addition, and her meth addiction worsens a deteriorating...