Word: biz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does unpack her bags in Princeton, will undoubtedly manage both the People press corps and a flock of undergraduate humor editors with her customary photogenic aplomb. More pity is due Princeton and its otherwise august members of the admissions committee, who, in brushing up against the models and show biz and high-speed, high-paying gossip, have come away with the definite smudge of cheap newsprint on their lapels...
...week's Grammy Award show, millions of others were tuned to a distinctly different beat: the gentle, vivid pulsations of a human heart. For the first time ever, major surgery was broadcast live from an operating room. But whether the performance was a credit to medicine or show biz is a matter of some debate...
Historically important works of art have always traveled, and many have been lost to history in the process. But it is time to abandon the primitive reasons for sending them round the world-political display, promotion, show biz-and move them only if their presence in another country is likely to make a real difference to historical understanding...
...Speaker's favorite character in the series), plunks down beside him and heaves into a tirade on Washington. "This bozo right here next to me could probably be a better Congressman than those guys in Congress," says Wendt. Add laugh track. And so the line between show biz and politics blurs further...
...wants Elizabeth Ashley to recount the horror of a back-alley abortion. He leans forward and demands of Daniel Travanti whether he has "the courage to fall in love" with his sultry Hill Street Blues costar, Veronica Hamel. Cottle's sign-off is generally a smarmy show-biz compliment. To Martin Mull: "I feel rather blessed to know a man like...