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...retromercials," the vintage commercials it airs every hour. A few days after Lemmon died, Game Show Network aired a marathon of his little-seen 1950s appearances on What's My Line? Amid the garish capitalist thunderdomes of today's prime-time game shows, seeing an urbane Lemmon and publisher Bennett Cerf trade quips in tuxes was a mini-lesson in changed American mores. "There was a real New York sophistication and wit in game shows then," says GSN president Rich Cronin. Likewise, watching the network's reruns of the post-sexual revolution yet pre-feminist Newlywed Game--the Stepfordized housewives...
...garden requires little additional sustenance. Since Las Vegas launched its water-conservation program in 1998, 3 million sq. ft. of lawn have been upended, and more soil is likely to be turned. "It looks like this year we're going to double what we did last year," says Doug Bennett, the water authority's conservation manager...
...historian Joseph Ellis is an old Gonzaga boy, like me and Pat Buchanan and Bill Bennett. I have been searching my memory: Was there anything in our rigorous Jesuit education that encouraged us to indulge in cheesy fabulations? I can't think of anything - rather the contrary. The Jesuits I remember had a ruthless, punitive regard for facts and truth...
...Bill Bennett got up b) Gustavo Kuerten yelled, "Stop your incessant chewing, Mr. Jowly!" c) Agassi lost d) the joker next to him said, "Pardonnez...
...During the Bush I administration, then drug czar William Bennett and Walters, his deputy, opposed a decision by the Department of Health and Human Services to end the so-called "compassionate exemption" permitting doctors to use marijuana to alleviate the suffering of people with cancer, AIDs and other chronic or debilitating ailments. Bennett and Walters argued that while zero tolerance was appropriate in most circumstances, there was nothing to be gained by denying marijuana to individuals who were suffering, even though the medicinal worth of the drug had not been proven scientifically...