Word: brokaws
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Game Three was all about intensity. The Garden was rocking before the tip, with celebrities Tom Brokaw, Woody and Soon-Yi, and Spike Lee assuming their usual courtside posts...
...velvet tonsils of a network news anchor. Apparently not, at least not when they're delivered about a fellow evening star. After CBS newsman DAN RATHER used the word "news-lite" several times to describe his competitors' newscasts in an otherwise genial interview in the Philadelphia Inquirer, TOM BROKAW's hackles were raised. Asked for comment, Brokaw remarked that he didn't "want to pick an argument with Dan," but he did recall the time that Connie Chung anchored an entire broadcast from the ice skating rink where Tonya Harding practiced. "Whenever there is the first hint of a counterclockwise...
...anchorman Tom Brokaw was one of the three most uncomfortable men in America last Tuesday night. Like his counterparts at ABC and CBS, he had to vamp on the air as two bizarrely incompatible events prepared to collide: President Clinton's State of the Union speech and a verdict in the O.J. Simpson civil trial. In Brokaw's earpiece, frantic conversations were taking place between NBC News executives in New York City and the producer on duty in Washington, with Brokaw chiming in whenever he got a few seconds off the air. "It was an American cultural meltdown," he says...
...Katharine Graham far better than I do are surprised to see the ease with which the regal owner of the Washington Post has taken to the rigors of a book tour. In the past two weeks she has submitted to interviews with all the usual suspects--Barbara Walters, Tom Brokaw, Charlie Rose and even the profane and dangerous Don Imus, who awarded Graham's just published memoir "three-boner" status, the highest rank in Imusland. After that phrase was translated for her, she was still game, for, as her story shows, the tall girl who had to struggle...
...l.a.p.d. but couldn't, and so at about 11:30 she had Cosby called out of rehearsals for that evening's taping in a studio in Queens, New York. Told about the reports in his dressing room, the actor picked up the phone and, through his publicist, David Brokaw, got in touch with the l.a.p.d. On the line was police commander Tim McBride: "I have the worst news to tell you, and I'm very sorry...