Word: boot
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Mondale's reputation as a party girl was one of the reasons she got the boot from WCCO-TV; her dismissal came just days before a local magazine was about to run a story headlined "Walter and Joan's Wild Child." The other reason she got fired, Mondale herself admits, was that she was no good. She moved back to Chicago in 1991, where she continued to appear in the gossip columns and got a job hosting another bad TV show, this one for the Lifetime network. It was another non-starter called the "Great American TV Poll." The poll...
When Ray Flynn ended his quest to be governorand entered the race for the eighth, the field ofcandidates finally had what it lacked: a big name,with a big following, to boot...
...Carl Camden, executive vice president of operations. "They have the experience and work ethic employers want." (Camden is too tactful to add that those employers might not want quite so much experience and work ethic if they had to pay for it full-time and incur pension obligations to boot.) Operation able, with seven affiliate offices from Los Angeles to Boston, has built up an over-55 clientele accounting for about a third of those it helps...
Despite the military brilliance of General George S. Patton, he has suffered vilification as a result of some relatively minor incidents. But now, according to your piece on military officers' questionable sexual relationships [NOTEBOOK, July 20], he was not only an adulterer but an incestuous one to boot, having had an affair with his "niece." Whatever the nature of Patton's involvement with Jean Gordon, it was not incestuous, since Gordon was not his blood relation. She was the daughter of his wife's half sister. We hope that Patton will be remembered as a hero who shortened...
...exception: In the Line of Fire. Give Wolfgang Petersen his due for making a solid American thriller and casting Fred Thompson to boot. And if, like me, you found Clint Eastwood a little old and stiff to leaping about on rooftops, think of it this way: He?s supposed to be stiff, at least -? he?s a Secret Service agent. And he does...