Word: barbered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with one of the most ambitious schedules in the world, must try to fill 4,000 seats at 210 performances a season. And for the most part, its forays into premieres have been failures. Met veterans still wince at the memory of the disastrous premiere of Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra, written to inaugurate the company's new quarters at Lincoln Center...
Announcers, of course, were always the key. Play by Play, a rare multinetwork collaboration, brings together an all-star team of hosts (Jim McKay, Pat Summerall, Bob Costas, Curt Gowdy, Brent Musburger and Jim Lampley) and a Hall of Fame lineup of booth pioneers (Red Barber, Mel Allen, Lindsey Nelson) in clips and interviews. These men are full of anecdotes, good humor and the reverent glow of people who have witnessed incredible events. They seem like the happiest guys on earth...
Landing only for more fuel and ammunition, the two sleepless lieutenants set off for the Marine base at Barber's Point. "We went down and got in the traffic pattern and shot down several planes there," said Taylor, who suffered a severe arm wound. "I know for certain I shot down two planes or perhaps more; I don't know." Official records credited the two of them with downing seven planes, almost one-quarter of all Japanese losses...
...sees as too lazy to go to work for themselves. "In America you get what you work for," says Sue Hee. "If you don't get it, then you didn't work for it." The rage that African Americans direct at Korean merchants, says Wayne Gibson, a black barber in Compton, stems from a feeling of exploitation and lack of respect. "It seems everybody's just trying to get over on the residents of Compton without giving anything back," he says. "That's where the hostility comes in. So the people out here resent these immigrants getting...
Bush himself has changed. It has been a long time since he blurted anything like "kicked a little ass" or had an on-camera goofy streak. The other day his barber, Milton Pitts, asked Bush if he'd heard any new jokes. "All the jokes have dried up," answered Bush. That's an exaggeration, but Pitts did notice a few more gray hairs, a few more wrinkles. The war Bush wages has taken a toll...