Word: chases
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pilot episode of the Fox network's new animated sitcom The PJs, Thurgood Orenthal ("Goody") Stubbs, the superintendent of an inner-city housing project, tries to chase a swarm of vagrants out of his embattled building. "Well, I'd love to stay and chat," says one, a series regular named Smokey, "but crack don't smoke itself...
...role of a lifetime, and he's prepared. In 1992 he published Grand Inquests, a 278-page history of the 19th century impeachment trials of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson. The book is out of print, but frenzied demand from reporters and congressional staff members desperate for clues about how Rehnquist will run Clinton's trial drove it to No. 23 on Amazon.com's best-seller list and persuaded the publisher, William Morrow and Co., to reissue it next week in paperback. The book is painfully judicious in refusing to offer opinions but seems to applaud the acquittals...
...wife and her husband to his Christmas parties. He spoke to reporters even as some of them peeked into his locker and hunted down his ex-wife and past girlfriends. He didn't go after bad pitches, no matter how many pitchers tried to derail his record chase by avoiding the strike zone. Blinded by thousands of popping flashbulbs from both sports photographers and fans waiting for his record-breaking 62nd homer, he says he didn't notice any of them. Mark McGwire would be a robot, only who would make a robot that goes to therapy and cries during...
...Urban Nutcracker is a perfectly serious work of choreographic art--Chase sees to that--but like much of what happens at the Cleveland School of the Arts, it is also an exercise in human reclamation, carried out on the tightest of budgets. Though the plaster is crumbling and the radiators are as old as fossils, these classrooms crackle with an exuberance no amount of poverty can discourage. Two-thirds of the students here come from families on public assistance, yet three-quarters of the students go on to some form of higher education. "Some will become dancers," Chase says. "Others...
...recent rehearsal, Chase and Wade were working out a scene from the second act. One boy sat in the corner of the studio, crisply dribbling a basketball; three others started slamming balls on the floor to a hip-hop beat. All at once the air was full of dancers, and what looked at first glance like boiling chaos quickly resolved into a joyous explosion of movement and sound. This is one of the "foreign lands" to which Miesha travels: a pro-basketball game. "You have to remember," Chase points out, "that for most of these kids, actually going...