Word: calling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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About the only thing Read didn't do was call her shots, but then, she isn't actually a member of the '27 Yankees and her name isn't Babe...
Nothing succeeds like excess" goes the famous Hollywood maxim, and nowhere is that more true than offscreen. We're talking about those ego-driven dictators of Panavision dreams who consume truckloads of drugs, frolic with call girls and go millions over budget as carelessly as if they were writing a bad check for groceries. Take Francis Coppola, who drank from Lalique crystal and cavorted with bimbos on the set of Apocalypse Now while his crew suffered from hookworm and rabies. How about Martin Scorsese, who was so wired at Cannes in 1978 that he sent a plane to Paris just...
...words, I'm in no position to question any slang help I can get, and I was grateful to the Post's Esther Iverem for collecting a smattering of terms from rappers in nine cities. In fact, I put her list to use right away when I got a call from my friend Wayne, a retired professor who has a lot of ideas for improving New York City...
Jones' complaints about HMOs, reportedly concerning bureaucratic red tape having to do with his HIV-positive status, were immediately obscured by complaints about what had just been shown. Local stations were inundated with phone calls; station managers, already aghast at what their cameras had captured, broadcast apologies and toll-free numbers for viewers to call for psychological counseling. Says Larry Perret, news director for KCBS-TV, which pulled away just before the fatal shot was fired: "With all due respect to my competitors, you couldn't have anticipated this. This was a legitimate news story...
...agenda aimed at "drawing distinctions"--read, picking fights--with Democrats and the White House on everything from abortion to Monica. Says Oklahoma's Ernest Istook, a religious conservative in the House: "It's been a long time coming, but the leadership has finally gotten the wake-up call...