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...each other with demanding first dibs on the most desirable stars. Dennis Miller, whose talk show was canceled after six months of low ratings and C-list guests, blames The Tonight Show for strong-arm booking tactics. David Letterman, NBC's later- night wit who couldn't conceal his chagrin at being snubbed for Johnny Carson's job, now has other networks and syndicators strewing his restless passage with blank checks. NBC has already retained Saturday Night Live's Dana Carvey as Letterman's potential replacement...
...marked by tragedy. President A. Lawrence Lowell hired a Soviet to install and then tune the bells, unaware that they could not be tuned. The poor bell-tuner, thrust into Cambridge without knowing a bit of English, started to file notches into the bell rims, much to Lowell's chagrin. (He promptly had the man fired for defacing them...
Americans tend to react to the Japanese inroads with a surly, complex resentment, or with chauvinism, anger, chagrin, even backhanded admiration. The Los Angeles County transportation commission canceled the contracts it had granted to Sumitomo for a light-rail transit system and decided to try to get into the business of manufacturing railcars itself. Cars became the center of "Buy America" campaigns. In Warren, Ohio, an ear surgeon, Dr. William Lippy, offered the 75 employees of his clinic $400 cash if they bought a new American car. Lippy became a favorite of morning television talk shows when he invited other...
...even black. Ofcourse, it looked black to George, and it surelooked black to me. But everybody else can tellthat stingy George is the only character in a navyblue tux. And they go out of their way to mentionit (four, count 'em, four blue tux jokes), much toGeorge's chagrin. He shoulda known better. Georgealso skimped on parking attendants--he hired onlytwo, instead of the four Franck recommended. Sowhile his guests are enjoying the party Georgepaid for, George is stuck outside parking Beamers.He never does get a chance to dance with thebride. Serves you right, George...
Much to the chagrin of some residents, there are plans to reincarnate the famed Adams House pool--but without the water...