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Word: chayefskian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unlike that of the tightly wound anchorman hero of Network, Dan Rather's public weirdness (the mysterious assaults, his live-TV walkout) preceded the indignities imposed by the network bosses (his closest CBS colleagues purged, his story ideas slighted). But the scenario is still Chayefskian, and now there's a real-life Network II: in a goose-the-ratings gambit, the bosses oblige the battered, brave protagonist (Rather) to accept a hustling, not exactly cerebral woman (Connie Chung) as his co-anchor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spectator: Does Connie Chung Matter? | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

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