Word: bowlings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great plane's Newt Gingrich Memorial Steerage Compartment, back behind the Secret Service, where they keep the crates of live chickens, the goats and the journalists--might have hoped to see the flesh and blood of democracy up close, but spent his time instead fantasizing a kind of Super Bowl that would pit the Soccer Moms against the Deadbeat Dads...
When there were no hands left to shake along the rope line, Clinton glad-handed the police and anyone else he could find, almost reeling, staggering backward, to find more people to grasp, like a little boy scraping the last of the ice cream out of a bowl, his spoon clattering on the china. The President even beamed at me and looked as if he wanted to embrace me, until he saw the notebook in my hand--whereupon his eyes jumped away...
...could summarize the studios' elevated intentions in one word: Hamlet. The whole thing--four hours of Elizabethan English, courtesy of Kenneth Branagh. It's the toniest offering in a bag of very worthy holiday films. And still we hear America saying, "Anyone for pigging out in front of the bowl games...
...categories: food and Drink, Public Awareness, Products and Services, Travel and Transport, and Entertainment and Leisure. The big winners, not surprisingly, were American, Japanese, and Western European advertisers but the Australians, Russians, and South Americans were not overlooked. The majority of the American winners first aired during the Super Bowl, the launching pad for new, creative commercials. Interestingly the judges at the Cannes Festival usually failed to resist cultural stereotypes, almost all of the winning American commercials were ones for Little Caesar's, Pepsi and Budweiser...
Oklahoma is no stranger to boom-and-bust upheavals. Fickle forces, from the 1930s dust-bowl drought to the 1995 terrorist bombing, have etched the Sooners with a distinct skepticism. Buoyed by the growth of the service sector, Oklahoma's economy is stable, but past upheavals have reverberated in the political realm as well: in 1990 Oklahoma was one of the first states to approve term limits for state legislators. This used to be a Democratic outpost, but in the past few years Oklahoma has swung markedly to the right. And this year may mean that a Republican sweep...