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...singer's early TV appearances, you can hear gasps of incomprehension. They may have been shocked by his gyrations, but even more they were confused. (Berle, sensing audience resistance during at the end of the "Hound Dog" number," rushes out, whistling enthusiastically and shouting, "How 'bout my boy! I love 'im!") Occasional reaction shots of the adult, white, middle-aged studio audience reveal people with annoyed, derisive or baffled looks on their faces...
...such agents and alert soldiers, who would then climb into masks and protective suits. It would be tough going in that gear, especially in the searing heat of summer; just taking a sip of water would be a 17-step process. Of course, that's better than enduring a bout of smallpox. --By Unmesh Kher. With reporting by Greg Land/Atlanta, Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow and Mark Thompson/Washington
...three deliver believable sound bites? If they don't, they risk a similar fate to that of Paul O'Neill and Larry Lindsay, neither of whom proved capable of selling tax cuts to a wary Capitol Hill. Both men were asked to leave the administration last week in a bout of epic housecleaning...
...Peckinpah's Major Dundee and a prisoner of war in the World War II drama The Great Escape. The wry actor gained star stature in the late 1960s as the lead in the James Bond spoofs Our Man Flint and In Like Flint. In 1998, coming back from a bout with rheumatoid arthritis that incapacitated him in the 1980s, Coburn won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Nick Nolte's abusive, alcoholic father in Affliction. On accepting the award, he said, "I finally got one right...
Taft overcame obstacles such as a bout with tuberculosis and a car accident to become head of the cytology laboratory of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a Harvard teaching hospital...