Word: brits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them, Diane Sawyer, could use a window in her contract to jump to CBS, while several others--Jennings, Barbara Walters, Sam Donaldson, Ted Koppel--are getting a little long in the tooth. "It's no secret that there's been a certain malaise at ABC News," says Brit Hume, former chief White House correspondent, who left ABC for Fox News in December. "There's an unmistakable sense of gradual decline...
Last week Scottish scientists may have cloned a sheep using DNA, but it was Crick and Watson who first introduced us to DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid. Crick, a Brit, was an inveterate scientific tinkerer as a boy. Watson, a Chicago native, won his degrees in zoology. In 1953 both were researchers at Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England, where they identified the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecular substance that makes possible the transmission of inherited characteristics. In 1976 Crick joined the Salk Institute and geared his energies toward exploring the workings of the brain, including short- and long-term...
...feeding rhythms, samples of prerecorded music and other sound effects through a synthesizer, has mostly been the domain of dance clubs and all-night raves. But MTV has now put the Brothers' Setting Sun video into heavy rotation. Techno-types don't sing, so Oasis' Noel Gallagher, a fellow Brit, is guest vocalist on the track. Says Rowlands: "We don't even take a microphone on tour...
...performances are also big; nearly everyone in this Act-O-Rama gets a screaming scene. The tone is set by Roth, the Brit of choice for those directors who think Gary Oldman just doesn't push it far enough. It's cartoon work, really (imagine Henery Hawk trying to be the Tasmanian Devil), but fun to watch. And Shakur, as the sensible guy, plays nicely off Roth. He is both Stretch's keeper and the film's conscience. "When gettin' high becomes a job," he muses, "what's the point...
...fashion world went into shock. Why not a top French designer like Jean-Paul Gaultier to assume the Givenchy mantle? Or if it had to be a foreigner, why not Vivienne Westwood, a more experienced Brit, who has shown in Paris for years and even troubled to study Dior's own output in detail? But Bernard Arnault, whose LVMH owns both Dior and Givenchy, is betting his money that the route to a younger market--the new, galvanizing image that has evaded the old couture houses in recent years--lies across the Channel. For if Galliano is famous...